Acts 8:32

8:32 Now the passage of scripture the man ¹  was reading was this:

“He was led like a sheep to slaughter,

and like a lamb before its shearer is silent,

so he did ²  not open his mouth.

Acts 20:35

20:35 By all these things, ³  I have shown you that by working in this way we must help ⁴  the weak, ⁵  and remember the words of the Lord Jesus that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’” ⁶ 

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¹ tn Grk “he”; the referent (the man) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Grk “does.” The present tense here was translated as a past tense to maintain consistency with the first line of the quotation (“he was led like a sheep to slaughter”), which has an aorist passive verb normally translated as a past tense in English.

³ sn The expression By all these things means “In everything I did.”

⁴ tn Or “must assist.”

⁵ tn Or “the sick.” See Eph 4:28.

⁶ sn The saying is similar to Matt 10:8. Service and generosity should be abundant. Interestingly, these exact words are not found in the gospels. Paul must have known of this saying from some other source.