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.

How did the people respond to the preaching of John?
How does grace, as the ground of justification, exclude righteousness by works?
Does faith exclude works?
How is this expressed by Mark?
What are God's people told to do at this time?
How are the people described who are developed by the threefold message here referred to?
Who witnessed the laying of the foundations of the earth?

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