Acts 9:5 Parallel Translations
NASB: And he said, "Who are You, Lord?" And He said, "I am Jesus whom you are persecuting, (NASB ©1995)
GWT: Saul asked, "Who are you, sir?" The person replied, "I'm Jesus, the one you're persecuting.(GOD'S WORD®)
KJV: And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
ASV: And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And he'said , I am Jesus whom thou persecutest:
BBE: And he said, Who are you, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus, whom you are attacking:
DBY: And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus, whom thou persecutest.
ERV: And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest:
WEY: "Who art thou, Lord?" he asked. "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting," was the reply.
WBS: And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest. It is hard for thee to kick against the goads.
WEB: He said, "Who are you, Lord?" The Lord said, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
YLT: And he said, 'Who art thou, Lord?' and the Lord said, 'I am Jesus whom thou dost persecute; hard for thee at the pricks to kick;'
Acts 9:5 Cross References
XREF:Acts 9:4 and he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?"

Acts 9:6 but get up and enter the city, and it will be told you what you must do." (NASB ©1995)
Commentaries and Concordances
GSB: 9:5 And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: [it is] {c} hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
(c) This is a proverb which is spoken of those who through their stubbornness hurt themselves.
PNT: 9:5 Who art thou, Lord? Sure that it was a supernatural communication, though he might possibly suspect its source, he did not yet know that it came from Christ. Perhaps at times he had had misgivings that he might be wrong, but he was sincere.
I am Jesus. It is not said, the Christ, but Jesus, the crucified one against whom Saul was raging. Had the answer been the Christ, or the Son of God, Saul might still have doubted whether this was Jesus.
[It is] hard for thee to kick against the pricks. Omitted here by the Revised Version, but found in Ac 26:14. The idea is that he is injuring himself, like the ox that kicks back on the goads used to urge him forward.
WES: 9:5 To kick against the goads - is a Syriac proverb, expressing an attempt that brings nothing but pain.
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.
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