Acts 9:4

9:4 He ¹  fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, ²  why are you persecuting me?” ³ 

Acts 26:14

26:14 When we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic, ⁴  ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? You are hurting yourself ⁵  by kicking against the goads.’ ⁶ 

¹ tn Grk “and he.” Because of the length of the Greek sentence, the conjunction καί (kai) has not been translated here. Instead a new English sentence is begun.

² tn The double vocative suggests emotion.

³ sn Persecuting me. To persecute the church is to persecute Jesus.

⁴ tn Grk “in the Hebrew language.” See Acts 22:7 and 9:4.

⁵ tn Grk “It is hard for you.”

⁶ tn “Goads” are pointed sticks used to direct a draft animal (an idiom for stubborn resistance). See BDAG 539-40 s.v. κέντρον 2.