Acts 22:7
I fell to the ground and heard a voice say to me, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?'
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
In Context
8I answered, 'Who are you, Lord?' He said to me, 'I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are persecuting.'
Cross References
Genesis 16:8He said, “Hagar, Sarai's servant, where did you come from and where are you going?” Then she said, “I am fleeing from my mistress Sarai.”
Genesis 22:11Then the angel of Yahweh called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” and he said, “Here I am.”
1 Samuel 3:10Yahweh came and stood; he called as at the other times, “Samuel, Samuel.” Then Samuel said, “Speak, for your servant is listening.”
Jeremiah 2:5Yahweh says this, “What did your fathers find wrong with me, that they went far from following me? 1 That they went after useless idols and became useless themselves? 1
Matthew 25:45Then he will answer them and say, 'Truly I say to you, what you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'
1 Timothy 1:13I was a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man. But I received mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief.
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 →