Acts 22:7
And I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, Saul, Saul, why do thou persecute me?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
In Context
8And I answered, Who are thou, Lord? And he said to me, I am Jesus the Nazarene, whom thou persecute.
Cross References
Genesis 16:8And he said, Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, from where have thou come? And where are thou going? And she said, I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.
Genesis 22:11And the agent of LORD called to him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham. And he said, Here I am.
1 Samuel 3:10And LORD came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel said, Speak, for thy servant hears.
Jeremiah 2:5Thus says LORD: What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and have become vain?
Matthew 25:45Then he will answer them, saying, Truly I say to you, inasmuch as ye did it not to one of these least, ye did it not to me.
1 Timothy 1:13the man who was formerly blasphemous, and a persecutor, and an aggressor. But I obtained mercy because I did it being ignorant in unbelief.
Matthew Henry on Acts 22:4-22
Paul's First Defence. 3 I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day. 4 And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women. 5 As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to… Read the whole commentary →