Acts 9:4
and having fallen on the earth, he heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?”
Literal Standard 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
3And in the going, he came near to Damascus, and suddenly there shone around him a light from Heaven,
Cross References
Genesis 3:9And YHWH God calls to the man and says to him, “Where [are] you?”
Genesis 22:11And the Messenger of YHWH calls to him from the heavens and says, “Abraham, Abraham”; and he says, “Here I [am]”;
Numbers 16:45“Get up from the midst of this congregation, and I consume them in a moment”; and they fall on their faces,
Zechariah 2:8For thus said YHWH of Hosts: He has sent Me after glory to the nations who are spoiling you, || For he who is coming against you, || Is coming against the pupil of His eye.
Matthew 25:45Then will He answer them, saying, Truly I say to you, inasmuch as you did [it] not to one of these, the least, you did [it] not to Me.
John 18:6When, therefore, He said to them, “I AM,” they went away backward, 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 →