Passage

A reader asks Philip for help

Source and translation

World English Bible, Protestant Edition · Public domain · en

³²Now 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.

Acts 8:32World English Bible, Protestant Edition

The scene

The passage being read compares someone led to death with a silent sheep and a lamb before its shearer.

To understand

The reader has just asked how he can understand without someone teaching him and invited Philip to sit with him. The quoted passage becomes the text of their conversation.

A question

What part of this quoted passage would you ask Philip to explain?