TSK · Acts 8:33

“As surely as God lives, who has denied me justice, the Almighty, who has made my life bitter–

The roof of my mouth is as dry as a piece of pottery; my tongue sticks to my gums. You set me in the dust of death.

They pronounce the guilty innocent for a payoff, they ignore the just cause of the innocent.

He was led away after an unjust trial– but who even cared? Indeed, he was cut off from the land of the living; because of the rebellion of his own people he was wounded.

So I will assign him a portion with the multitudes, he will divide the spoils of victory with the powerful, because he willingly submitted to death and was numbered with the rebels, when he lifted up the sin of many and intervened on behalf of the rebels.”

For this reason the law lacks power, and justice is never carried out. Indeed, the wicked intimidate the innocent. For this reason justice is perverted.

But when he was accused by the chief priests and the elders, he did not respond.

He humbled himself, by becoming obedient to the point of death– even death on a cross!