Acts 8:33

In his humiliation, justice was taken away.Who will declare His generation?For his life is 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 he was reading was this,"He was led as a sheep to the slaughter.As a lamb before his shearer is silent,so he does not open his mouth.

34The eunuch answered Philip, "Who is the prophet talking about? About himself, or about someone else?"

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Cross References

Job 27:2"As God lives, who has taken away my right,the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter.

Psalms 22:15My strength is dried up like a potsherd.My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.You have brought me into the dust of death.

Isaiah 5:23who acquit the guilty for a bribe,but deny justice for the innocent!

Isaiah 53:8He was taken away by oppression and judgment;and as for his generation,who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the livingand stricken for the disobedience of my people?

Isaiah 53:12Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great,and he shall divide the spoil with the strong;because he poured out his soul to death,and was numbered with the transgressors;yet he bore the sins of many,and made intercession for their transgressions.

Habakkuk 1:4Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice goes forth perverted.

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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