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Acts 26:14

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When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’

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Acts 26:14 in other translations

And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying unto me in the Hebrew language, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the goad.

Acts 26:14 · American Standard Version

Acts 26:14 in context

  1. 12“Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,
  2. 13at noon, O king, I saw on the way a light from the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who traveled with me.
  3. 14When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’
  4. 15“I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’
    “He said, ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
  5. 16But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you;