Acts 8:33

In his humiliation justice was taken away from him. 1 Who can fully describe his descendants? 1 For his life was taken from the earth.”

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In The King James Version

In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.

In Context

32Now the passage of the scripture which the Ethiopian was reading was this, 1 “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, 1 and like a lamb before his shearer is silent, 1 so he did not open his mouth. 1

34So the eunuch asked Philip, and said, “I beg you, who is the prophet speaking about, himself, or someone else?”

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Cross References

Job 27:2“As surely as God lives, who has taken away my justice, 1 the Almighty, who made my life bitter, 1

Psalms 22:15My strength has dried up like a piece of pottery; 1 my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. 1 You have laid me in the dust of death. 1

Isaiah 5:23who acquit the wicked for payment, and deprive the innocent of his rights! 1

Isaiah 53:8By coercion and judgment he was condemned; who from that generation thought anymore about him? 1 But he was cut off from the land of the living; because of the offenses of my people the penalty was put on him. 1

Isaiah 53:12Therefore will I give him his portion among the multitudes, and he will divide the spoils with the many, 1 because he exposed himself to death and was numbered with the transgressors. 1 He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.

Habakkuk 1:4Therefore the law is weakened, and justice does not last for any time. 1 For the wicked surround the righteous; therefore false justice goes out.” Yahweh replies to Habakkuk 1

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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