Acts 8:32

And the passage of the Writing that he was reading was this: “He was led as a sheep to slaughter, || And as a lamb before his shearer is silent, || So He does not open His mouth;

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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, “Why, how am I able, if someone may not guide me?” He called Philip also, having come up, to sit with him.

33In His humiliation His judgment was taken away, || And His generation—who will declare? Because His life is taken from the earth.”

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Cross References

Psalms 39:2I was mute [with] silence, || I kept silent from good, and my pain is excited.

Psalms 44:11You make us food like sheep, || And You have scattered us among nations.

Jeremiah 11:19And I [am] as a trained lamb brought to slaughter, || And I have not known || That they have devised schemes against me: “We destroy the tree with its food, || And cut him off from the land of the living, || And his name is not remembered again.”

Jeremiah 51:40“I cause them to go down as lambs to slaughter, || As rams with male goats.

Luke 23:34And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they have not known what they do”; and parting His garments they cast a lot.

John 18:9that the word might be fulfilled that He said, “Those whom You have given to Me, I did not lose even 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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