Now the passage of the scripture which he was reading was this,\par\tab {\b He was led as a sheep to the slaughter;\par\tab And as a lamb before his shearer is dumb,\par\tab So he openeth not his mouth:}
He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he opened not his mouth; as a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.
Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed them that showed before of the coming of the Righteous One; of whom ye have now become betrayers and murderers;