Isaiah 53:2
For he grew up before Yahweh like a sapling, and like a sprout out of parched earth; 1 he had no remarkable appearance or splendor; when we saw him, there was no beauty to attract us. 1
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1Who has believed what they heard from us, and to whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed? 1
Cross References
Isaiah 11:1A shoot will sprout from the stump of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit. 1
Jeremiah 23:5See, the days are coming—this is Yahweh's declaration—when I will raise up for David a righteous branch. 1 He will reign as king; he will act wisely and cause justice and righteousness in the land. 1
Zechariah 6:12Speak to him and say, 'Yahweh of hosts says this: 1 This man, his name is Branch! He will grow up where he is 1 and will then build the temple of Yahweh! 1
Mark 9:12He said to them, “Elijah does come first to restore all things. Why then is it written that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be despised?
Luke 2:39When they had finished everything they were required to do according to the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth.
Luke 9:58Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds in the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 53:2-4
The Humiliation of the Messiah. ( b. c. 706.) 1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? 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. 3 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. The prophet, in the close of the… Read the whole commentary →