Acts 8:32

Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, so he doesn’t 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

31He said, “How can I, unless someone explains it to me?” He begged Philip to come up and sit with him.

33In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away. Who will declare His generation? For his life is taken from the earth.”

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Cross References

Psalms 39:2I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.

Psalms 44:11You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.

Jeremiah 11:19But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”

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

Luke 23:34Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

John 18:9that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, “Of those whom you have given me, I have lost none.”

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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