Acts 9:4
He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him – “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?”
Open English Bible (US)
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
5“Who are you, Lord?” he asked. “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” the voice answered;
Cross References
Genesis 3:9When the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”
Genesis 22:11But the messenger of the Lord called to him from heaven, saying, “Abraham, Abraham!” and he answered, “Here am I.”
Zechariah 2:8This is what the Lord of hosts says to the nations which plundered you: Whoever touches you touches the apple of my eye.
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.’
John 18:6When Jesus said ‘I am he,’ they drew 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 →