^{30 Ref} Philip ran to him, and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, "Do you understand what you are reading?"

^{31 Ref} He said, "How can I, unless someone explains it to me?" He begged Philip to come up and sit with him.

^{32 Ref} Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, "He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, So he doesn't open his mouth.

^{33 Ref} In his humiliation, his judgment was taken away. Who will declare His generation? For his life is taken from the earth."

^{30 Ref} and Philip having run near, heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, and said, `Dost thou then know what thou dost read?'

^{31 Ref} and he said, `Why, how am I able, if some one may not guide me?' he called Philip also, having come up, to sit with him.

^{32 Ref} And the contents of the Writing that he was reading was this: `As a sheep unto slaughter he was led, and as a lamb before his shearer dumb, so he doth not open his mouth;

^{33 Ref} in his humiliation his judgment was taken away, and his generation -- who shall declare? because taken from the earth is his life.'