He was led like a sheep to the slaughter

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 “Then Philip ran up to the chariot and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked.
 “How can I,” he said, “unless someone explains it to me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.  This is the passage of Scripture the eunuch was reading:

   “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter,
   and as a lamb before its shearer is silent,
   so he did not open his mouth. In his humiliation he was deprived of justice.
   Who can speak of his descendants?
   For his life was taken from the earth.”   [Acts 8:30-33]

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He was led like a sheep to the slaughter

It was during this great spiritual awakening in Samaria that an angel of the Lord directed Philip to a new field to labor. He was to leave the place where many were being blessed, and minister to one man. An angel could direct Philip but could not do Philip’s work of preaching the gospel. That privilege was given to men, not to angels. 
In unquestioning obedience, Philip journeyed south from Samaria to Jerusalem, and then to one of the routes that led to Gaza.” Philip left a place of habitation and spiritual fertility for a barren area.
Somewhere along the route he caught up with a caravan. In the main chariot was the treasurer of Candace the queen of the Ethiopians. This man had apparently become a convert to Judaism, since he had been to Jerusalem to worship and was now returning home.  As the chariot rolled along, he was reading Isaiah the prophet. With split-second timing, the Spirit directed Philip to overtake this chariot.
The passage in Isaiah pictures One who was meek and silent before His enemies; One who was hurried away from justice and a fair trial; and One who had no hope of posterity because He was killed in the prime of manhood.
The Ethiopian Official wondered whether Isaiah was speaking of himself or of some other man. This, of course, gave Philip the desired opportunity to tell how these Scriptures were perfectly fulfilled in the life and death of Jesus of Nazareth.

Do you believe in the same Jesus as your Savior, who died for your sins?



  Philip and the Ethiopian

    

Philip and the Ethiopian official

 “Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Go south to the road—the desert road—that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.”  So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an important official in charge of all the treasury of the Kandake (which means “queen of the Ethiopians”). This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship,  and on his way home was sitting in his chariot reading the Book of Isaiah the prophet.  The Spirit told Philip, “Go to that chariot and stay near it.”  [Acts 8:26-29]