In all things Jesus is perfect. He manifested this when, knowing all things, He came down into a scene where He tasted rejection at every step- rejection not merely as a baby when He was carried into Egypt, but rejection all through a life of the most blameless yet divinely ordered obscurity. His ministry while on earth excited growing hatred on man's part. There is nothing a man dreads more than to be nothing at all. Even to be spoken against is not so dreadful to the proud spirit of man as to be absolutely unnoticed, and yet the greater part of the life of Jesus was spent in entire obscurity. We only have a single incident recorded of Jesus from His earliest years until He emerges for the ministry of the Word of God and the gospel of the kingdom. But then He lived in Nazareth, proverbially the lowest place of poor, despised Galilee-so much so that even a godly Galilean wondered if any good thing could come out of Nazareth.
When Jesus did enter into His public service, He met opposition, though at first there was a welcome which would have gratified most men. But He the Son, the divine Person who was pleased to serve in this world, saw through that which would have been sweet to others when men, astonished and attracted, hung on the gracious words that fell from His lips. This attraction, however, did not last, for the same day in which men heard words as had never fallen on the ears of man, they could not endure the grace of God, and had they been left to themselves they would have cast Him down headlong from the precipice outside their city (Luke 4:2929And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong. (Luke 4:29)). Such was man and such he still is. But Jesus accepted a ministry of which He knew from the first the character, course, and results. He knew that the more divine grace and truth were brought out by Him, the more violent the rejection He would meet among men.