Acts 22:8
‘Who are you, Lord?’ I answered. ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth, the one you are persecuting,’ he told me.
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In Context
7I fell to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’
9Those who were traveling with me did see the light, but they didn't hear the voice that spoke to me.
Cross References
1 Samuel 8:7“Do what the people tell you,” the Lord said to Samuel, “because it's not you they're rejecting, but me as their king.
Matthew 2:23and settled down in Nazareth. This fulfilled what the prophets had said, “He will be called a Nazarene.”
Matthew 25:40The king will tell them, ‘I tell you the truth: whatever you did for one of these least important brothers of mine you did for me.’
Acts 3:6“I don't have any silver or gold,” Peter told him, “but I'll give you what I have. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk!”
Acts 6:14“We've heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy the Temple, and will change the laws we received from Moses.”
Acts 26:14All of us fell to the ground. Then I heard a voice speaking to me in Aramaic, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It's hard for you to fight against me!’
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 →