Acts 8:32

New American Bible - revised edition

This was the scripture passage he was reading: “Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter, and as a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he opened not his mouth.

Cross References

Psalm 39:2

I said, “I will watch my ways, lest I sin with my tongue; I will keep a muzzle on my mouth.”

Psalm 39:9

From all my sins deliver me; let me not be the taunt of fools.

Jeremiah 11:19

Yet I was like a trusting lamb led to slaughter, not knowing that they were hatching plots against me: “Let us destroy the tree in its vigor; let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will no longer be remembered.”

Jeremiah 12:3

Lord, you know me, you see me, you have found that my heart is with you. Pick them out like sheep for the butcher, set them apart for the day of slaughter.

Jeremiah 51:40

I will bring them down like lambs to slaughter, like rams and goats.

Numbers 7:39

one bull from the herd, one ram, and one yearling lamb for a burnt offering;

Numbers 7:57

one bull from the herd, one ram, and one yearling lamb for a burnt offering;

Luke 23:34

[Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, they know not what they do.”] They divided his garments by casting lots.

John 1:29

The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.

Acts 8:31

He replied, “How can I, unless someone instructs me?” So he invited Philip to get in and sit with him.

Romans 8:36

As it is written: “For your sake we are being slain all the day; we are looked upon as sheep to be slaughtered.”

1 Corinthians 15:3

For I handed on to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures;

1 Peter 1:19

but with the precious blood of Christ as of a spotless unblemished lamb.