Acts 8:33

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

He was treated like a nobody and did not receive a fair trial. How can he have children, if his life is snatched away?”

Cross References

Job 27:2

I am desperate because God All-Powerful refuses to do what is right. As surely as God lives,

Job 34:5

Job claims he is innocent and God is guilty of ill-treating him.

Psalm 22:15

My strength has dried up like a broken clay pot, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You, God, have left me to die in the dust.

Psalm 22:30

In the future, everyone will worship and learn about you, our Lord.

Isaiah 10:2

that let you cheat the poor and needy and rob widows and orphans.

Isaiah 5:23

You accept bribes to let the guilty go free, and you cheat the innocent out of a fair trial.

Isaiah 53:10

The LORD decided his servant would suffer as a sacrifice to take away the sin and guilt of others. Now the servant will live to see his own descendants. He did everything the LORD had planned.

Isaiah 53:12

The LORD will reward him with honour and power for sacrificing his life. Others thought he was a sinner, but he suffered for our sins and asked God to forgive us.

Isaiah 53:7

He was painfully abused, but he did not complain. He was silent like a lamb being led to the butcher, as quiet as a sheep having its wool cut off.

Isaiah 53:8

He was condemned to death without a fair trial. Who could have imagined what would happen to him? His life was taken away because of the sinful things my people had done.

Daniel 9:26

At the end of the sixty-two weeks, the Chosen Leader will be killed and left with nothing. A foreign ruler and his army will sweep down like a mighty flood, leaving both the city and the temple in ruins, and war and destruction will continue until the end, just as God has decided.

Habakkuk 1:4

Laws cannot be enforced; justice is always the loser; criminals crowd out honest people and twist the laws around.

Zechariah 13:7

The LORD All-Powerful said: My sword, wake up! Attack my shepherd and friend. Strike down the shepherd! Scatter the little sheep, and I will destroy them.

Acts 8:34

The official said to Philip, “Tell me, was the prophet talking about himself or about someone else?”