Acts 8:32

Now, the passage of Scripture which he was reading, was, this:—As a sheep, unto slaughter, was he led, and, as a lamb, before him that sheareth it, is dumb, so, he openeth not his mouth.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 indeed should be able—unless someone shall guide me? And he called upon Philip, to come up and sit with him.

33In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away,—his generation, who shall describe? because, his life, is taken away from the earth.

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Cross References

Psalms 39:2I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, afar from happiness, But, my pain had been stirred:

Psalms 44:11Thou dost give us up like sheep to be devoured, And, amongst the nations, hast thou scattered us.

Jeremiah 11:19But, I, was as a gentle lamb that is to be led to the slaughter,—and I knew not that against me, they had devised devices [saying] —Let us destroy the tree with its fruit Yea let us cut him off out of the land of the living, And, his name, shall be remembered no more!

Jeremiah 51:40I will bring them down As fat lambs to slaughter,—As rams with he-goats.

Luke 23:34[[But, Jesus, was saying—Father! forgive them; for they know not what they do.]] And, when they were parting his garments, they cast lots.

John 18:9that the word might be fulfilled which he had said—As touching them whom thou hast given me, I lost from among them, not so much as one.

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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