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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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:...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? This is the continual cry of the men of God. The sent ones of God who come to bear testimony of the Lamb of God have no easy time of it. With broken heart they have to go to their Master, and say, “Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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:...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. Christ hath both form and comeliness to the spiritual eye; but, to the carnal, he seems only like ordinary men, except that his visage is more marred than...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: This is why Christ was not received by those to whom he came, — and why the testimony of the prophets concerning Christ was rejected by those to whom it was delivered, — because he was not revealed to them as a towering palm-tree or widely-spreading cedar: but,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he — That is, Jesus — Isa_53:2. 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. Carnal minds are unbelieving minds. They are so because the beauties of Christ are spiritual, and in their natural state they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. There was nothing about Jesus Christ to attract the attention of those who look for pomp and splendor. His religion is all simplicity; it is plain truth;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he shall grow up before him — That is, the Messiah shall grow up before God — Isa_53:2. 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. When Christ came, he was very lovely to those who could judge of spiritual beauty. In form and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. Carnal minds never did see beauty in Christ, and never will. Christ as the great sacrifice is always rejected.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. We rightly sing, — “Rejected and despised of men, Behold a man of woe! And grief his close companion still Through all his life below! “We held him as condemn’d of heaven, An outcast...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. It was not only Christ’s humiliation, but his sorrow, which became a stumbling-block in the way of the unbelieving Jews. How could they, who were looking for an earthly deliverer to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He is despised and rejected of men; This was written long before he came to earth: “He is despised and rejected of men,” and, truly, though he is now in heaven, I need not alter the tense of the verb. I do not say, “He was despised,” though that would be true; for, alas! it is still true, “He is despised and rejected of men;” — Isa_53:3. A man of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. It was so with Jesus when he was here. He was the greatest of all sufferers: there were few that followed him; some of those who did betrayed him. There were few who would stand up for...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. Oh, how sad it is that the Son of the Most High God, when he condescended to wear our nature, received such base treatment as this from the hands of men! How equally sad is it that his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. What a joyous note there is in that sorrowful line, “With his stripes...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: What a discovery this truth seems to be! How it bursts upon the prophet and his hearers and amazes them! “Surely,” they say, “can it be really so that ‘ he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows’?” Yes, it is indeed so; there is no accounting for the sufferings of the perfect Christ...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. If this does not teach the doctrine of a vicarious atonement, what does it teach? If Christ’s sufferings were not endured in our...