# Acts 8:32

> The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture:
“He was led like a sheep to the slaughter,
and as a lamb before the shearer is silent,
so He did not open His mouth.

— Acts 8:32, Berean Standard Bible

## When

- c. AD 34-36 (counted from the text)
- Date source: Counted back from Galatians 1:18 and 2:1, which give three years and then fourteen between the conversion and the Council of Jerusalem.

## Who ruled

- **Tiberius**, emperor of Rome, AD 14-37 · Source: Tacitus, Annals I-VI; Suetonius, Tiberius
- **Pontius Pilate**, prefect of Judea, AD 26-36 · Source: Josephus, Antiquities XVIII.3-4; Tacitus, Annals XV.44; the Caesarea inscription, which carries his name and office in stone
- **Herod Antipas**, tetrarch of Galilee, 4 BC – AD 39 · Source: Josephus, Antiquities XVII.8-XVIII.7
- **Philip**, tetrarch of Ituraea, 4 BC – AD 34 · Source: Josephus, Antiquities XVII.8, XVIII.4
- **Caiaphas**, high priest, AD 18-36 · Source: Josephus, Antiquities XVIII.2.2 and XVIII.4.3; the ossuary of "Joseph, son of Caiaphas," found in Jerusalem in 1990

## See also

- Isaiah 53:7-8 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/53/7
- 1 Peter 2:21-24 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/1-peter/2/21
- Jeremiah 51:40 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/jeremiah/51/40
- Jeremiah 11:19 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/jeremiah/11/19
- Romans 8:36 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/romans/8/36
- Psalms 44:11-12 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/44/11
- Psalms 39:9 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/39/9
- Psalms 39:2 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/39/2

Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0.

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/8/32
- Whole chapter: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/8
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