Acts 9:5

He answered: Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said: I am Jesus, whom you persecute.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

In Context

4And when he had fallen to the earth, he heard a voice saying to him: Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?

6But rise, and go into the city, and it shall be told you what you must do.

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Cross References

Acts 5:39but if it is of God, you can not bring it to an end: and take heed, lest you be found fighting also against God.

1 Corinthians 10:22Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

Matthew Henry on Acts 9:2-10

Saul's Conversion. 1 And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, 2 And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem. 3 And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: 4 And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? 5… Read the whole commentary →

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