Jesus identifies with all humanity at the lowest possible common denominator by growing up in the ghetto as if He was poor (Nazareth), getting baptized as if He was a sinner, receiving the Holy Spirit as if He was weak, being affirmed as God’s Son as if He didn’t know it, and getting tempted by the devil as if He wasn’t God.

That God was willing to meet us at our level is the most earth-shaking, heart-breaking act of love history will ever know.

“For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin” (Heb 4:15).