Acts 22:7
I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?”
Open English Bible (UK)
In The King James Version
And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
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Genesis 16:8He said, ‘Hagar, Sarai’s slave-girl, where have you come from? And where are you going?’ She said, ‘I am fleeing from the presence of mistress Sarai.’
Genesis 22:11But the messenger of the Lord called to him from heaven, saying, ‘Abraham, Abraham!’ and he answered, ‘Here am I.’
Matthew 25:45And then he will reply “I tell you, as often as you failed to do it to one of these, however unimportant, you failed to do it to me.”
1 Timothy 1:13though I once used to blaspheme, and to persecute, and to insult. Yet mercy was shown me, because I acted in ignorance, while still an unbeliever;
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 →