Acts 9:4-5

9:4 He ¹  fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, ²  why are you persecuting me?” ³  9:5 So he said, “Who are you, Lord?” He replied, “I am Jesus whom you are persecuting!

Acts 22:7-8

22:7 Then I ⁴  fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’ 22:8 I answered, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ He said to me, ‘I am Jesus the Nazarene, whom you are persecuting.’

Acts 26:15

26:15 So I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ And the Lord replied, ⁵  ‘I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.

Acts 26:14

26:14 When we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic, ⁶  ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? You are hurting yourself ⁷  by kicking against the goads.’ ⁸ 

[9:4]  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.

[9:4]  ² tn The double vocative suggests emotion.

[9:4]  ³ sn Persecuting me. To persecute the church is to persecute Jesus.

[22:7]  ⁴ tn This is a continuation of the same sentence in Greek using the connective τέ (te), but due to the length and complexity of the Greek sentence a new sentence was begun in the translation here. To indicate the logical sequence for the modern English reader, τέ was translated as “then.”

[26:15]  ⁷ tn Grk “said.”

[26:14]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “in the Hebrew language.” See Acts 22:7 and 9:4.

[26:14]  ¹¹ tn Grk “It is hard for you.”

[26:14]  ¹² tn “Goads” are pointed sticks used to direct a draft animal (an idiom for stubborn resistance). See BDAG 539-40 s.v. κέντρον 2.