Verse 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.

Referenced Verses

  • 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 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 disobedience of my people to whom the stroke [was due]?
  • 1 Pet 2:21-24 : 21 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you{TR reads "us" instead of "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 the fruit of it, 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 lamb without spot, the blood of Christ;