How was Christ to be received by His own people?

Answer

"He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were
our faces from Him; He was despised, and we esteemed Him not." Isa. 53 : 3.

What Christian ordinance has been given as a memorial of Christ's burial and resurrection?
What was the effect of this apostasy?
What means will be employed to compel all to receive this mark?
What, aside from sin, causes more sorrow than all else?
What does God's Word then become to the believer?
If an answer does not come at once, what should we do?
How completely will the pains and sorrows of the former world pass away?

Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle