He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, but He did not open His mouth. He was led as a lamb to the slaughter; and as a ewe before her shearers is mute, and He opened not His mouth.
And I was like a docile lamb being brought to the slaughter; and I did not know that they had plotted schemes against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; and let us cut him off from the land of the living so that his name may be remembered no more.
But You know me, O Jehovah. You have seen me and tried my heart toward You. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and consecrate them to the day of slaughter.
They will make you to be expelled from the synagogue, but an hour is coming that every one killing you will think to he offers a divine service before God.
But I make account of nothing, nor do I hold my life precious to myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to solemnly testify the gospel of the grace of God.
And the content of the Scripture which he was reading was this: “He was led as a sheep to slaughter, and as a lamb is voiceless before the one shearing it, so He does not open His mouth.
For I think that God pointed us out as last, the apostles, as condemned to death, because we became a spectacle to the world, even to angels and to men.
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as beside myself) I being beyond them: in labors, more abundantly; in stripes, beyond measure; in prisons, much more; in deaths, many times.