Isaiah 53:3

Isaiah 53:3. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrow, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

While the Redeemer was here below, his state of poverty, obscurity, suffering, and shame, was of such a character that few would believe in him, and even those, who afterwards received him, at the first did not so. He was despised; and we, even we, his own people, esteemed him not. Christ has forgiven us for all this, but shall we ever forgive ourselves? O eyes, shall ye ever cease to weep over your former blindness? O heart, shalt thou ever cease to grieve over thy former hardness? He, who was heaven’s darling, was despised and rejected of men, and we partook in the guilt, for we also despised and rejected him.