31 And he said, How can I, except I had [a]a guide? And he desired Philip, that he would come up and sit with him.

32 [b]Now the place of the Scripture which he read, was this, (A)He was lead as a sheep to the slaughter: and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth.

33 In his [c]humility his judgment hath been exalted: but who shall declare his [d]generation? for his life is taken from the earth.

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  1. Acts 8:31 To show me the way how to understand it.
  2. Acts 8:32 Those things which seem most to come by chance or fortune (as men term it) are governed by the secret providence of God.
  3. Acts 8:33 The Hebrew text readeth it thus, Out of a narrow strait, and out of judgment was he taken: whereby the narrow strait, he meaneth the grave and the very bands of death, and by judgment, the punishment which was laid upon him, and the miserable state which Christ took upon him for our sakes, in bearing his Father’s wrath.
  4. Acts 8:33 How long his age shall last: for Christ having once risen from the dead, dieth no more, Rom. 6:9.

31 “How can I,” he said, “unless someone explains it to me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

32 This 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.
33 In his humiliation he was deprived of justice.
    Who can speak of his descendants?
    For his life was taken from the earth.”[a](A)

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  1. Acts 8:33 Isaiah 53:7,8 (see Septuagint)