32 Now the passage of scripture that he was reading aloud was this:

“He was led like a sheep to the slaughter,
    and like a lamb before its shearer is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
33     In his[a] humiliation justice was taken from him.
Who can describe his descendants?[b]
    For his life was taken away from the earth.”[c]

34 And the eunuch answered and[d] said to Philip, “I ask you, about whom does the prophet say this—about himself or about someone else?”

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 8:33 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
  2. Acts 8:33 Or perhaps “family history”; literally “generation”
  3. Acts 8:33 A quotation from Isa 53:7–8
  4. Acts 8:34 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“answered”) has been translated as a finite verb