shearer is silent, so he opens not his mouth. In his humiliation justice was denied him. Who can describe his generation? For his life is taken from the earth’ ” (8:32–33). After reading Isaiah 53:7–8, the official questions Philip regarding the identity of the suffering servant described in this passage, saying, “About whom, I ask you, does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?” (8:34). Philip responds to the official and “beginning with this Scripture [i.e., Isaiah 53] he told