Isaiah 53:2
“For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.”
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
Counter-Arguments
The strongest case that this verse does not belong in this theme.
Cross-References
“Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:”
“He came unto his own, and his own received him not.”
“And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:”
“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
“But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:”