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

Hee was oppressed and he was afflicted, yet did he not open his mouth: hee is brought as a sheepe to the slaughter, and as a sheepe before her shearer is dumme, so he openeth not his mouth.

Hee was taken out from prison, and from iudgement: and who shall declare his age? for he was cut out of the lande of the liuing: for the transgression of my people was he plagued.

Nowe the place of the Scripture which he read, was this, Hee was lead as a sheepe to the slaughter: and like a lambe domme before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth.

In his humilitie his iudgement hath bene exalted: but who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.