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32 The officer was reading these words from the book of Isaiah:

‘He was like a sheep that people were leading away to kill.
He was like a lamb when they are cutting off its wool,
but it makes no noise.
In the same way, he did not say anything.

33 People did not respect him at all.

They refused to judge him in a fair way.
Nobody can say anything about his descendants,
because his life on earth came to an end.’[a]

34 The officer said to Philip, ‘Please tell me who the prophet Isaiah wrote about. Was he writing about himself or about another person?’

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Footnotes

  1. 8:33 We can read this in Isaiah 53:7-8. Isaiah wrote this about Jesus hundreds of years earlier.