Acts 8:32

And the passage of the scripture which he read was this: He was led as a sheep to slaughter, and as a lamb is dumb in presence of him that shears him, thus he opens not his mouth.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:

In Context

31And he said, How should I then be able unless some one guide me? And he begged Philip to come up and sit with him.

33In his humiliation his judgment has been taken away, and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.

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Cross References

Psalms 39:2I was dumb with silence, I held my peace from good; and my sorrow was stirred.

Psalms 44:11Thou hast given us over like sheep [appointed] for meat, and hast scattered us among the nations;

Jeremiah 11:19And I was like a tame lamb [that] is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they devised devices against me, [saying,] Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

Jeremiah 51:40I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.

Luke 23:34And Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. And, parting out his garments, they cast lots.

John 18:9that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, [As to] those whom thou hast given me, I have not lost one of them.

Matthew Henry on Acts 8:27-40

Philip and the Ethiopian. 26 And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert. 27 And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship, 28 Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet. 29 Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join… Read the whole commentary →

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