He was born into a people under occupation by an aggressive foreign power. He was born among the stink of animals. And like his birth, his life and death are woven from the same fabric of poverty, lowliness and meekness. This is impossibly contrary to expectations. Pomp and circumstance, surely, would accompany the coming of God, here.
Kings live in palaces, presidents travel in motorcades.
But not the King of Kings. With the coming of God we see a total reversal, a subversion of human power plays. God offers himself, he does not force, he does not coerce. So now we know who is there, who the unseen God is and what he is like. We could never have guessed it.