Acts 8:32

World English Bible (2000)

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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  • Isa 53:7-8 : 7 He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn't open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is mute, so he didn't open his mouth. 8 He 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 living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?
  • 1 Pet 2:21-24 : 21 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps, 22 who did not sin, "neither was deceit found in his mouth." 23 Who, when he was cursed, didn't curse back. When he suffered, didn't threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously; 24 who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
  • Jer 51:40 : 40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
  • John 1:29 : 29 The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
  • Ps 39:2 : 2 I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.
  • Ps 44:11-12 : 11 You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations. 12 You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing from their sale.
  • Ps 39:9 : 9 I was mute. I didn't open my mouth, because you did it.
  • Jer 11:19 : 19 But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I didn't know that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, 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 you, Yahweh, know me; you see me, and try my heart toward you: 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 your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter."
  • Matt 26:62-63 : 62 The high priest stood up, and said to him, "Have you no answer? What is this that these testify against you?" 63 But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, "I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God."
  • Luke 23:34 : 34 Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they don't know what they are doing." Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.
  • 1 Pet 1:19 : 19 but with precious blood, as of a faultless and pure lamb, the blood of Christ;

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  • Isa 53:6-9
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    6All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

    7He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn't open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is mute, so he didn't open his mouth.

    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 living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?

    9They 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. Who will declare His generation? For his life is taken from the earth."

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

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

    36As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?"

    37

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

    39When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, and the eunuch didn't see him any more, for he went on his way rejoicing.

    40But Philip was found at Azotus. Passing through, he preached the Good News to all the cities, until he came to Caesarea.

  • Acts 8:27-31
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    27He arose and went; and behold, there was 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.

    28He was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah.

    29The Spirit said to Philip, "Go near, and join yourself to this chariot."

    30Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, "Do you understand what you are reading?"

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

  • Luke 4:16-18
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    16He came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. He entered, as was his custom, into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read.

    17The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the book, and found the place where it was written,

    18"The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

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  • Matt 12:17-19
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    17that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,

    18"Behold, my servant whom I have chosen; my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my Spirit on him. He will proclaim justice to the nations.

    19He will not strive, nor shout; neither will anyone hear his voice in the streets.

  • Isa 42:1-2
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    1"Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delights-- I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations.

    2He will not shout, nor raise his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street.

  • Isa 52:13-15
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    13Behold, my servant shall deal wisely, he shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high.

    14Like as many were astonished at you (his appearance was marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men),

    15so shall he sprinkle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they understand.

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    41Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke of him.

  • Rom 8:36
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    36Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter."

  • Ps 38:13
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    13But I, as a deaf man, don't hear. I am as a mute man who doesn't open his mouth.

  • Isa 53:11-12
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    11After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.

    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 sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

  • 1 Pet 2:22
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    22who did not sin, "neither was deceit found in his mouth."

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    11He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

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    38that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, "Lord, who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"

  • Acts 8:5-6
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    5Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and proclaimed to them the Christ.

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    8And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.

  • Mark 15:28
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    28The Scripture was fulfilled, which says, "He was numbered with transgressors."

  • Luke 4:20-21
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    20He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him.

    21He began to tell them, "Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."

  • Matt 21:4
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    4All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying,

  • Isa 53:2
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    2For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no form nor comeliness. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

  • Prov 31:8
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    8Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.

  • Heb 5:8
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    8though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.

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    12and the book is delivered to one who is not educated, saying, "Read this, please;" and he says, "I can't read."

  • Acts 28:26
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    26saying, 'Go to this people, and say, in hearing, you will hear, but will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, but will in no way perceive.