Acts 8:33

³¹ “How can I,” he said, “unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

³² The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so He did not open His mouth.

In His humiliation He was deprived of justice. Who can recount His descendants? For His life was removed from the earth.”

³⁴ “Tell me,” said the eunuch, “who is the prophet talking about, himself or someone else?”

³⁵ Then Philip began with this very Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: In His humiliation He was deprived of justice. Who can recount His descendants? For His life was removed from the earth.”
KJV: In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.
WEB: In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away. Who will declare His generation? For his life is taken from the earth.”
ASV: In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: His generation who shall declare? For his life is taken from the earth.
DARBY: In his humiliation his judgment has been taken away, and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.
BLB: In His humiliation, justice was taken away from Him. Who will describe His generation? For His life is removed from the earth.”

ÅB: i hans fornedrelse ble dommen over ham borttatt, og hvem kan fortelle om hans slekt? for hans liv blir tatt bort fra jorden.
OTB: I hans fornedrelse ble rettferdighet nektet ham.
Hvem kan tale om hans etterkommere?
For hans liv ble tatt bort fra jorden."
B1930: i hans fornedrelse blev dommen over ham borttatt, og hvem kan fortelle om hans ætt? for hans liv blir tatt bort fra jorden.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Isaiah 53:12
Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.
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Isaiah 53:8
By oppression and judgment He was taken away, and who can recount His descendants? For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was stricken for the transgression of My people.
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Philippians 2:8–9
And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death— even death on a cross.
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Zechariah 13:7
Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, against the man who is My Companion, declares the LORD of Hosts. Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn My hand against the little ones.
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Isaiah 53:10
Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.
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Isaiah 10:2
to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.
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Isaiah 5:23
who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.
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Matthew 27:12–26
And when He was accused by the chief priests and elders, He gave no answer.
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