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 followed immediately after the gaoler and his family had accepted Christ as their Saviour?
Why did Israel fail to attain unto righteousness?
To what indignities did Herod subject the Saviour?
How are those described who heed this warning?
How was this covenant then confirmed and dedicated?
What did Christ say would be the moral condition of the world just preceding His advent?
But when, according to the prophecy, was Elijah to be sent?

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