Jesus 2

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He was despised and rejected by

men, a man of sorrows, and

familiar with suffering.

Like one from whom men hide

their faces he was despised, and

we esteemed him not.

Surely he took up our infirmities

and carried our sorrows, yet we

considered him stricken by God,

smitten by him, and afflicted.

Isaiah 53:3,4 

Upon completion of the bread winner

role instead of the late father

for his young widow mother and

many younger siblings,

Jesus ended his carpenter job.

He began the redemptive ministry

for which he came to the world

at the age of 30.

People despised him and rejected for

he was a mere carpenter of Nazareth,

a son of widow and an old bachelor

unfitting to their laws then.

They treated him so until the end

of his life on the cross.

Truly Jesus from the birth at

the manger lived a life of sorrow and

suffering including being refugee in

Egypt, hard working youth family

supporter, mocked by his brothers,

facing men’s sufferings,

lonely young adulthood, above all

he carried the burden of redemption

for menkind that he had to pay.

When Jesus forgave their sins and

rebuked sufferings and raised the dead

two extreme reactions he faced.

Those who had authority with wealth

and power attempted to kill him out

of envy and jealousy,

those who poor, sick and powerless

praised Jesus as their friend and

the Savior.

This is the 5th lent week.

Next is the passion week: The week is that

Jesus was agonized in the steps of obedience of

his abandonment from God in order to take

all the sin of menkind and preparing for

his leaving the earth. It is most important week.

His agony was so extreme that he said

his soul was overwhelmed with sorrow to

the point of death.

All these were prophesied through

the prophet Isaiah 700 years ago.

They were summed up in Isaiah chapter 53.