In Isaiah, chapter fifty-three, verse two, “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.” Jesus not only had humble beginnings, but He came to earth at a time of great spiritual drought. The reason why God’s chosen people will generally reject their Messiah is that He will not come into the world with today’s fashionable approach, which the world seems to accept. However, He will arrive just normal and ordinary from the public point of view.
This, the prophet speaks in the persons of the carnal and unbelieving people of God. There was a great deal of true beauty in Him, the beauty of holiness, and the beauty of goodness, enough to render Him the desire of all nations; but the far greater part of those among whom He lived and conversed saw none of this beauty; for it was spiritually discerned. When Jesus was rejected at Nazareth in His own country in Matthew thirteen, verses fifty-three through fifty-eight, they asked several questions beginning at verse fifty-five. “Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not His mother called Mary? And His brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?”
They continued in verse fifty-six, “And His sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things?” These questions will come from those who are not walking in the spirit, but living with the carnal side leading, and not spiritually. Therefore, they will not discern. For the believer who lives according to God’s will and allows the Spirit of God to lead their life will experience the public questioning them. Who is this? The Messiah would lack earthly grandeur and physical attractiveness; God’s greatest concern is always a person’s character, godliness and obedience, not earthly status or physical beauty.