All for your consideration.
If partiality means “to receive the face,” Jesus was “as one from whom men hide their faces; he was despised and we esteemed him not” (Isa 53:3). He bore the shame of poverty to show us the shame of our sin, and at the cross, he bore that guilt and shame in our place.
When Jesus was crucified, He was hung between two convicted criminals, one of his left and one on his right. And do you know what they had been convicted of? Robbery. Jesus was crucified between two thieves. But, as one person has pointed out, as far as justice goes, there were really three thieves on the cross that day. Two died for their own crimes. One died for ours.
