Communion preparation

… despised and rejected by men,
A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
Surely He has borne our griefs
And carried our sorrows;
Yet we esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten by God, and afflicted.
But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one, to his own way;
And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. Isaiah 53.3-6

Those words were written some 700 years before Jesus came. They tell you the whole essence of why He came. That He was to be despised, rejected, He was to be the sin-bearer, one upon whom God would lay the sin of the world, and to be the One who would redeem us, bring us back to God because we have all gone astray, we’ve all fallen short of His glory.