Acts 8:32

American Standard Version (1901)

Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; And as a lamb before his shearer is dumb, So he openeth not his mouth:

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  • Isa 53:7-8 : 7 He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he opened not his mouth; as a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth. 8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who [among them] considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people to whom the stroke [was due] ?
  • 1 Pet 2:21-24 : 21 For hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye should follow his steps: 22 who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: 23 who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered threatened not; but committed [himself] to him that judgeth righteously: 24 who his own self bare our sins in his body upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live unto righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed.
  • Jer 51:40 : 40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
  • John 1:29 : 29 On the morrow he seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold, the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world!
  • Ps 39:2 : 2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; And my sorrow was stirred.
  • Ps 44:11-12 : 11 Thou hast made us like sheep [appointed] for food, And hast scattered us among the nations. 12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, And hast not increased [thy wealth] by their price.
  • Ps 39:9 : 9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; Because thou didst it.
  • Jer 11:19 : 19 But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
  • Jer 12:3 : 3 But thou, O Jehovah, knowest me; thou seest me, and triest my heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
  • Rom 8:36 : 36 Even as it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
  • Matt 26:62-63 : 62 And the high priest stood up, and said unto him, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee? 63 But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou art the Christ, the Son of God.
  • Luke 23:34 : 34 And Jesus said, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And parting his garments among them, they cast lots.
  • 1 Pet 1:19 : 19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb without spot, [even the blood] of Christ:

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    6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and Jehovah hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

    7He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he opened not his mouth; as a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.

    8By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who [among them] considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people to whom the stroke [was due] ?

    9And they made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death; although he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

  • Acts 8:33-40
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    33In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: His generation who shall declare? For his life is taken from the earth.

    34And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other?

    35And Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached unto him Jesus.

    36And as they went on the way, they came unto a certain water; and the eunuch saith, Behold, [here is] water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?

    37(Ommitted)

    38And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.

    39And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip; and the eunuch saw him no more, for he went on his way rejoicing.

    40But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he preached the gospel to all the cities, till he came to Caesarea.

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    27And he arose and went: and behold, a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship;

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    29And the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot.

    30And Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?

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    13Behold, my servant shall deal wisely, he shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high.

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    13But I, as a deaf man, hear not; And I am as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.

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    28(Ommitted)

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    20And he closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant, and sat down: and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him.

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    8Open thy mouth for the dumb, In the cause of all such as are left desolate.

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