Acts 8:32
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32 Now the passage of the scripture that he was reading was this:
“Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter,
and like a lamb silent before its shearer,
so he does not open his mouth.(A)
Isaiah 53:7-8
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7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth;
like a lamb that is led to the slaughter
and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.(A)
8 By a perversion of justice he was taken away.
Who could have imagined his future?
For he was cut off from the land of the living,
stricken for the transgression of my people.(B)
1 Peter 2:21-24
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21 For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you should follow in his steps.(A)
22 “He committed no sin,
and no deceit was found in his mouth.”
23 When he was abused, he did not return abuse; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but he entrusted himself to the one who judges justly.(B) 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross,[a] so that, having died to sins, we might live for righteousness; by his wounds[b] you have been healed.(C)
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Jeremiah 51:40
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40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter,
like rams and goats.(A)
Jeremiah 11:19
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19 But I was like a gentle lamb
led to the slaughter.
And I did not know it was against me
that they devised schemes, saying,
“Let us destroy the tree with its fruit;
let us cut him off from the land of the living,
so that his name will no longer be remembered!”(A)
Romans 8:36
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36 As it is written,
“For your sake we are being killed all day long;
we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered.”(A)
Psalm 44:11-12
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11 You have made us like sheep for slaughter
and have scattered us among the nations.(A)
12 You have sold your people for a trifle,
demanding no high price for them.(B)
Psalm 39:9
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9 I am silent; I do not open my mouth,
for it is you who have done it.(A)
John 1:29
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The Lamb of God
29 The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him and declared, “Here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!(A)
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Psalm 39:2
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2 I was silent and still;
I held my peace to no avail;
my distress grew worse;(A)
Matthew 26:62-63
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62 The high priest stood up and said, “Have you no answer? What is it that they testify against you?” 63 But Jesus was silent. Then the high priest said to him, “I put you under oath before the living God, tell us if you are the Messiah,[a] the Son of God.”(A)
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- 26.63 Or Christ
Jeremiah 12:3
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3 But you, O Lord, know me;
you see me and test me; my heart is with you.
Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter,
and set them apart for the day of slaughter.(A)
1 Peter 1:19
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19 but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without defect or blemish.(A)
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John 18:9-11
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9 This was to fulfill the word that he had spoken, “I did not lose a single one of those whom you gave me.”(A) 10 Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it, struck the high priest’s slave, and cut off his right ear. The slave’s name was Malchus. 11 Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword back into its sheath. Am I not to drink the cup that the Father has given me?”(B)
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Luke 23:34
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[[34 Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”]][a] And they cast lots to divide his clothing.(A)
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- 23.34 Other ancient authorities lack the sentence Then Jesus . . . what they are doing
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