ÒWho has believed our
message, and to whom has the arm of the LORD
been revealed? He grew up before him like a
tender shoot, and like a root out of dry
ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to
him, nothing in his appearance that we should
desire him. He was despised and rejected by
men, a man of sorrows and familiar with
suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he
was despised and we esteemed him not.Ó –
Isaiah 53:1-3