30 So Philip ran to the chariot and kept running close to it. Then he heard the official reading what the prophet Isaiah had written. He asked the man, "Do you (sg) understand what you are reading?" 31 He answered Philip, "No! ◄I cannot possibly understand it if there is no one to explain it to me!/How can I understand it if there is no one to explain it to me?► [RHQ]"

Then the man said to Philip, "Please come up and sit beside me." So Philip did that. 32 The part of the Scriptures that the official was reading was this:

He will be silent when they lead him away to kill him

like when a sheep is led away to be killed.

As a young sheep is silent when its wool is being cut off {someone cuts off its wool}, similarly he will not protest [MTY] when people cause him to suffer.