2For 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.
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Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: …
As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. …
And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-3)The prophet, in the close of the former chapter, had foreseen and foretold the kind reception which the gospel of Christ should find among the Gentiles, that nations and their kings should bid it welcome, that those who had not seen him should believe in him; and though they had not any prophecies among them of gospel grace, which might raise their expectations, and dispose them to entertain it, y…
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