New American Standard Bible 1995

Acts 26:14-18

14And when we had 1all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the 2 3Hebrew dialect, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? 4It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’ 15And I said, ‘Who are You, Lord?’ And the Lord said, ‘I am Jesus whom you are persecuting. 16But get up and 5stand on your feet; for this purpose I have appeared to you, to 6appoint you a 7minister and 8a witness not only to the things which you have 9seen, but also to the things in which I will appear to you; 17 10rescuing you 11from the Jewish people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you, 18to 12open their eyes so that they may turn from 13darkness to light and from the dominion of 14Satan to God, that they may receive 15forgiveness of sins and an 16inheritance among those who have been sanctified by 17faith in Me.’

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Notes

1. Acts 26:14 Acts 9:7 ↩
2. Acts 26:14 I.e. Jewish Aramaic ↩
3. Acts 26:14 Acts 21:40 ↩
4. Acts 26:14 An idiom referring to an animal’s futile resistance to being prodded with goads ↩
5. Acts 26:16 Ezek 2:1; Dan 10:11 ↩
6. Acts 26:16 Acts 22:14 ↩
7. Acts 26:16 Luke 1:2 ↩
8. Acts 26:16 Acts 22:15 ↩
9. Acts 26:16 Two early mss read seen Me ↩
10. Acts 26:17 Jer 1:8, 19 ↩
11. Acts 26:17 1 Chr 16:35; Acts 9:15 ↩
12. Acts 26:18 Is 35:5; 42:7, 16; Eph 5:8; Col 1:13; 1 Pet 2:9 ↩
13. Acts 26:18 John 1:5; Eph 5:8; Col 1:12f; 1 Thess 5:5; 1 Pet 2:9 ↩
14. Acts 26:18 Matt 4:10 ↩
15. Acts 26:18 Luke 24:47; Acts 2:38 ↩
16. Acts 26:18 Acts 20:32 ↩
17. Acts 26:18 Acts 20:21 ↩

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