Isaiah 53:2

The Servant grows up unremarkably, like a tender shoot from dry ground, with no outward beauty to attract people. It matters because Christ's glory was hidden under an ordinary, unimpressive exterior.

Cross-references · 19

• Phil 2:6–7who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,
• Isa 52:14Just as many were astonished at you (his appearance was marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men),
• John 1:10–14He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him.
• Isa 11:1A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.
• Mark 6:3Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” They were offended at him.
• Ezek 17:22–24“Thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘I will also take some of the lofty top of the cedar, and will plant it. I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.
• Jer 23:5“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
• John 19:14–15Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, at about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Behold, your King!”
• Mark 9:12He said to them, “Elijah indeed comes first, and restores all things. How is it written about the Son of Man, that he should suffer many things and be despised?
• Rom 8:3For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
• John 9:28–29They insulted him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.
• John 19:5Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, “Behold, the man!”
• 1 Pet 2:14or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and for praise to those who do well.
• John 18:40Then they all shouted again, saying, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber.
• Luke 2:51–52And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
• Luke 2:39–40When they had accomplished all things that were according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth.
• Luke 9:58Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”
• Zech 6:12and speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says, “Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: and he shall grow up out of his place; and he shall build Yahweh’s temple;
• Luke 2:7She gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a feeding trough, because there was no room for them in the inn.

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