Acts 8:32 Cross References - Moffatt

³² Now the passage of scripture which he was reading was as follows: — he was led like a sheep to be slaughtered, and as a lamb is dumb before the shearer, so he opens not his lips.

⁶² So the high priest rose and said to him, "Have you no reply to make? What of this evidence against you?" ⁶³ Jesus said nothing. Then the high priest addressed him, "I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God!"

³⁴ Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, they do not know what they are doing." Then they distributed his clothes among themselves by drawing lots.

²⁹ Next day he observed Jesus coming towards him and exclaimed, "Look, there is the lamb of God, who is to remove the sin of the world!

⁹ (this was to fulfil his own word: 'I did not lose a single one of those whom thou didst give me'). ¹⁰ Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his right ear (the servant's name was Malchus); ¹¹ whereupon Jesus said to Peter, "Sheathe your sword. Am I not to drink the cup which the Father has handed me?"

³⁶ (Because, as it is written, For thy sake we are being killed all the day long, we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.)

¹⁹ but by the precious blood of Christ, a lamb unblemished and unstained.

²¹ It is your vocation; for when Christ suffered for you, he left you an example, and you must follow his footsteps. ²² He committed no sin, no guile was ever found upon his lips; ²³ he was reviled and made no retort, he suffered and never threatened, but left everything to Him who judges justly; ²⁴ he bore our sins in his own body on the gibbet, that we might break with sin and live for righteousness; and by his wounds you have been healed.