Acts 26:14-15
New American Standard Bible
14 And when we had (A)all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the [a](B)Hebrew dialect, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? [b]It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’ 15 And I said, ‘Who are You, Lord?’ And the Lord said, ‘I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.
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- Acts 26:14 I.e., Jewish Aramaic
- Acts 26:14 An idiom referring to an animal’s futile resistance to being prodded with a spiked stick
Acts 26:14-15
New International Version
14 We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice(A) saying to me in Aramaic,[a](B) ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’
15 “Then I asked, ‘Who are you, Lord?’
“ ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,’ the Lord replied.
Footnotes
- Acts 26:14 Or Hebrew
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