Bible Verses About Quotations and Allusions: Acts 8:32, »He was led as a sheep to the slaughter...«

Though mistreated, he was submissive - he did not open his mouth. Like a lamb led to be slaughtered, like a sheep silent before its shearers, he did not open his mouth.

After forcible arrest and sentencing, he was taken away; and none of his generation protested his being cut off from the land of the living for the crimes of my people, who deserved the punishment themselves.

Now the portion of the Tanakh that he was reading was this: “He was like a sheep led to be slaughtered; like a lamb silent before the shearer, he does not open his mouth.

He was humiliated and denied justice. Who will tell about his descendants, since his life has been taken from the earth?”