Acts 8:33 Meaning and Explanation
“In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.”
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What Does Acts 8:33 Mean?
The quotation runs on into Isaiah 53:8. In the Servant's humiliation 'his judgment was taken away' — justice was denied him — and his life was 'taken from the earth.' The eunuch is reading the account of an innocent man destroyed.
Every clause found its echo in Jesus: the irregular trial, the silenced defense, the cross. 'Who shall declare his generation?' — cut off in mid-life, he seemed to leave no posterity. Yet the same prophecy promises, 'he shall see his seed' (Isaiah 53:10), and the family of those made alive through his death has never stopped growing. The deepest injustice ever done became, in the hands of God, the salvation of the world.
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What does Acts 8:33 mean?
Isaiah continues: in his humiliation his judgment was taken away, and his life is taken from the earth.