Isaiah 53:2

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.

This is Israel’s King, the long-promised Messiah; yet when he comes to Bethlehem, see what "a tender plant" he is! Look at the house of David, almost extinct; and see what "a root out of a dry ground" is - "The stem of Jesse’s rod." When Jesus comes before the sons of men, dressed in the garb of a peasant, a poor man, a sorrowful man, a man who had not where to lay his head, notice how men say, by their actions, if not in words, "There is no beauty that we should desire him."