Acts 22:7
Good News Translation
I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, 'Saul, Saul! Why do you persecute me?'

New Revised Standard Version
I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’

Contemporary English Version
I fell to the ground and heard a voice asking, "Saul, Saul, why are you so cruel to me?"

New American Bible
I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’

Douay-Rheims Bible
And falling on the ground, I heard a voice saying to me: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And falling on the ground, I heard a voice saying to me: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

Saul.

Genesis 3:9 And the Lord God called Adam, and said to him: Where art thou?

Genesis 16:8 He said to her: Agar, handmaid of Sarai, whence comest thou? and whither goest thou? And she answered: I flee from the face of Sarai, my mistress.

Genesis 22:1,11 After these things, God tempted Abraham, and said to him: Abraham, Abraham. And he answered: Here I am. . . .

Exodus 3:4 And when the Lord saw that he went forward to see, he called to him out of the midst of the bush. and said: Moses, Moses. And he answered: Here I am.

1 Samuel 3:10 And the Lord came, and stood, and he called, as he had called the other times, Samuel, Samuel. And Samuel said: Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth.

why.

Isaiah 43:22-26 But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob, neither hast thou laboured about me, O Israel. . . .

Jeremiah 2:5,9 Thus saith the Lord: What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain? . . .

Matthew 25:45 Then he shall answer them, saying: Amen: I say to you, as long as you did it not to one of these least, neither did you do it to me.

Matthew 27:23 The governor said to them: Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying: Let him be crucified.

1 Timothy 1:13 Who before was a blasphemer and a persecutor and contumelious. But I obtained the mercy of God, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

Context
Paul's Defense to the Crowd
6And it came to pass, as I was going and drawing nigh to Damascus, at mid-day, that suddenly from heaven there shone round about me a great light: 7And falling on the ground, I heard a voice saying to me: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? 8And I answered: Who art thou, Lord? And he said to me: I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.…
Cross References
Acts 9:4
And falling on the ground, he heard a voice saying to him: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

Acts 22:6
And it came to pass, as I was going and drawing nigh to Damascus, at mid-day, that suddenly from heaven there shone round about me a great light:

Acts 22:8
And I answered: Who art thou, Lord? And he said to me: I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.

Acts 22:6
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