53 Who ·would have [or has] believed ·what we heard [or our message; John 12:38; Rom. 10:16]?
    ·Who saw the Lord’s power in this [^LAnd to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed]?
² He grew up like a ·small plant [young plant; tender shoot; 11:1] before ·the Lord [^Lhim],
    like a root growing in a ·dry land [parched soil].
He had no special beauty or ·form [majesty] to make us notice him;
    there was nothing in his appearance to make us desire him.