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Led like a lamb to the slaughter
An Ethiopian official was reading Isaiah's words about a silent lamb led to slaughter and asked whom the prophet meant. Philip began from that passage and told him about Jesus.
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A New Testament passage quotes an earlier passage.
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New TestamentActs 8:32-33Open this recordRead the earlier witness
7He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth. 8By oppression and judgment he was taken away. Yet who of his generation protested? For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was punished. Read the later witness
32This is the passage of Scripture the eunuch was reading: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth. 33In his humiliation he was deprived of justice. Who can speak of his descendants? For his life was taken from the earth.” Why FaithGraph draws this line
Acts 8:32-33 quotes Isaiah 53:7-8.
Luke records the Ethiopian official reading the servant song, and Philip explains it as being about Jesus.
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