Acts 9:4 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, "Saul! Saul! Why are you persecuting me?"(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

ASV:

and he fell upon the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

BBE:

And he went down on the earth, and a voice said to him, Saul, Saul, why are you attacking me so cruelly?

DBY:

and falling on the earth he heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why dost thou persecute me?

ERV:

and he fell upon the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

WEY:

and falling to the ground he heard a voice which said to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?"

WBS:

And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

WEB:

He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?"

YLT:

and having fallen upon the earth, he heard a voice saying to him, 'Saul, Saul, why me dost thou persecute?'

Acts 9:4 Cross References

XREF:

Acts 22:7 and I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?'

Acts 26:14 "And when we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew dialect, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.' (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

PNT:

9:4 Heard a voice. After he had fallen. Not a sound merely, but words that he could understand.
Why persecutest thou me? Observe how Christ sympathizes with his persecuted followers. The blows that fall upon them, fall upon him. If Saul strikes the disciples in Damascus, Christ feels the blows in heaven.

WES:

9:4 He heard a voice - Severe, yet full of grace.

MHC:

9:1-9 So ill informed was Saul, that he thought he ought to do all he could against the name of Christ, and that he did God service thereby; he seemed to breathe in this as in his element. Let us not despair of renewing grace for the conversion of the greatest sinners, nor let such despair of the pardoning mercy of God for the greatest sin. It is a signal token of Divine favour, if God, by the inward working of his grace, or the outward events of his providence, stops us from prosecuting or executing sinful purposes. Saul saw that Just One, ch. 22:14; 26:13. How near to us is the unseen world! It is but for God to draw aside the veil, and objects are presented to the view, compared with which, whatever is most admired on earth is mean and contemptible. Saul submitted without reserve, desirous to know what the Lord Jesus would have him to do. Christ's discoveries of himself to poor souls are humbling; they lay them very low, in mean thoughts of themselves. For three days Saul took no food, and it pleased God to leave him for that time without relief. His sins were now set in order before him; he was in the dark concerning his own spiritual state, and wounded in spirit for sin. When a sinner is brought to a proper sense of his own state and conduct, he will cast himself wholly on the mercy of the Saviour, asking what he would have him to do. God will direct the humbled sinner, and though he does not often bring transgressors to joy and peace in believing, without sorrows and distress of conscience, under which the soul is deeply engaged as to eternal things, yet happy are those who sow in tears, for they shall reap in joy.

CONC:

Attacking Cruelly Fallen Falling Fell Ground Persecute Persecutest Persecuting Saul Saying Voice

Attacking Cruelly Earth Fallen Falling Fell Ground Heard Me Persecute Persecutest Persecuting Saul Voice

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