Acts 26:14-15

26:14 When we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic, ¹  ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? You are hurting yourself ²  by kicking against the goads.’ ³  26:15 So I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ And the Lord replied, ⁴  ‘I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.

[26:14]  ¹ tn Grk “in the Hebrew language.” See Acts 22:7 and 9:4.

[26:14]  ² tn Grk “It is hard for you.”

[26:14]  ³ tn “Goads” are pointed sticks used to direct a draft animal (an idiom for stubborn resistance). See BDAG 539-40 s.v. κέντρον 2.

[26:15]  ⁴ tn Grk “said.”