Jesus - A Man of Sorrows

Painting by Joan Grayson
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Who has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? 
For he grew up before him like a young plant,
and like a root out of dry ground;
he had no form or comeliness that we should look at him,
and no beauty that we should desire him.
He was despised and rejected by men;
a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief;
and as one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not. (Isa 53:1-3 RSV)

Surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken
smitten by God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, 
he was bruised for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that made us whole,
and with his stripes we are healed. 
All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned every one to his own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all. (Isa 53:4-6 RSV)
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