³¹ “Of course not!” the man replied. “How can I when there is no one to instruct me?” And he begged Philip to come up into the chariot and sit with him.

³² The passage of Scripture he had been reading from was this:

“He was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb is silent before the shearers, so he opened not his mouth; ³³ in his humiliation, justice was denied him; and who can express the wickedness of the people of his generation?^[a] For his life is taken from the earth.”