Acts 8:32
The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:
{G1161} The place {G4042} of the scripture {G1124} which {G3739} he read {G314} was {G2258} this {G3778}, He was led {G71} as {G5613} a sheep {G4263} to {G1909} the slaughter {G4967}; and {G2532} like {G5613} a lamb {G286} dumb {G880} before {G1726} his {G846} shearer {G2751}, so {G3779} opened he {G455} not {G3756} his {G846} mouth {G4750}:
Now the portion of the Tanakh that he was reading was this:
βHe was like a sheep led to be slaughtered;
like a lamb silent before the shearer, he does not open his mouth.
The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture: βHe was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
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:
Cross-References
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Isaiah 53:7 (68 votes)
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. -
Isaiah 53:8 (68 votes)
He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. -
1 Peter 2:21 (55 votes)
For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: -
1 Peter 2:24 (55 votes)
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. -
Jeremiah 51:40 (34 votes)
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats. -
Romans 8:36 (25 votes)
As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. -
Jeremiah 11:19 (25 votes)
But I [was] like a lamb [or] an ox [that] is brought 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.
Commentary
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