Acts 8:32

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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:

He was

Isaiah 53:7

As a

Romans 8:36

And like

John 1:29

1 Peter 1:19

1 Peter 2:21

Opened

General references

Numbers 7:39

Matthew 27:12

Bible References

He was

He was pressed, and he was afflicted, and he will not open his mouth: he was brought as a sheep for the slaughter, and as a sheep before his shearers being dumb and he will not open his mouth.

As a

Thou wilt give us as sheep for food, and thou didst scatter us among the nations.

And I as a gentle lamb being brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that against me they purposed purposes: We will destroy the tree with its food, and we will cut him off from the land of the living, and his name shall no more be remembered.

And thou, Jehovah, knew me: thou wilt see me, and thou didst try my heart with thee: pluck them out as sheep for the slaughter, and consecrate them to the day of slaughter.

I will bring them down as lambs for the slaughter, as rams with he goats.

As has been written, That for thy sake we are killed the whole day; we were reckoned as sheep for slaughter.

And like

In the morrow John sees Jesus coming to him, and says, Behold the Lamb of God, be taking away the sin of the world.

But with precious blood, as of a lamb blameless and spotless, of Christ:

For to this were ye called: for also Christ suffered for you, leaving behind to you an underwriting, that ye should follow upon his footsteps:

Opened

I was dumb with silence, I was silent from good, and my pain was moved.

And the chief priest, having risen, said to him, Answerest thou nothing? what do these witness against thee?

And Jesus said, Father, let them go; for they know not what they do. And having divided his garments, they cast lots.

That the word might be completed which he spake, That whom thou hast given me, I lost none of them.

General references

One bullock, son of a cow, one ram, one lamb, son of his year, for a burnt-offering:

And in the accusing him by the chief priests and the more ancient, he answered nothing.