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Alone
“He is despised and rejected of men; a Man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and we hid as it were our faces from Him; He was despised and we esteemed Him not” (Isaiah 53:3).
Humanly speaking we all seek the comfort of companionship. This support was absent as the Lord Jesus Christ went on trial and then to the cross.
Peter “denied Him” (Luke 22:57). Judas betrayed Him, as it had been prophesied, “Yea, Mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of My bread, hath lifted up his heel against Me” (Psalm 41:9). The gospel writers record that “all the disciples forsook Him, and fled” (Matthew 26:56). Others who followed Him stood “afar off” (Matt. 27:55). Looking ahead to this scene, the psalmist prophesied, “I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none” (Psalm 69:20). Our Savior, the Man of Sorrows went to the cross alone. This is described in the most touching language by the Psalmist who also wrote, “I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top” (Psalm 102:7).
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