Acts 9:4
And falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?”
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 3:9And the Lord God called Adam and said to him: “Where are you?”
Genesis 22:11And behold, an Angel of the Lord called out from heaven, saying, “Abraham, Abraham.” And he answered, “Here I am.”
Numbers 16:45“Withdraw from the midst of this multitude, and I will destroy them immediately.” And while they were lying on the ground,
Zechariah 2:8For thus says the Lord of hosts: After the glory, he has sent me to the Gentiles, which have despoiled you. For he who touches you, touches the pupil of my eye.
Matthew 25:45Then he shall respond to them by saying: ‘Amen I say to you, whenever you did not do it to one of these least, neither did you do it to me.’
John 18:6Then, when he said to them, “I am he,” they moved back and fell to the ground.
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 →