guilty of immorality. Also, He was despised and rejected because of the circumstances of His early life. Separated from the privileges that abounded in Jerusalem, growing up in a military post town, He was looked down upon by the rest of the citizens of the nation. Jesus was despised and rejected because, when He came to introduce Himself to the nation, He was not introduced by a highly respected priest or an acknowledged prophet but was introduced by one who was himself an outcast from Israel. John