Acts 9:5
Good News Translation
"Who are you, Lord?" he asked. "I am Jesus, whom you persecute," the voice said.

New Revised Standard Version
He asked, “Who are you, Lord?” The reply came, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

Contemporary English Version
"Who are you?" Saul asked. "I am Jesus," the Lord answered. "I am the one you are so cruel to.

New American Bible
He said, “Who are you, sir?” The reply came, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who said: Who art thou, Lord? And he: I am Jesus whom thou persecutest. It is hard for thee to kick against the goad.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who said: Who art thou, Lord? And he: I am Jesus whom thou persecutest. It is hard for thee to kick against the goad.

Who.

1 Samuel 3:4-10 And the Lord called Samuel. And he answered: Here am I. . . .

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.

I am.

Acts 26:9 And I indeed did formerly think that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

it is.

Acts 5:39 But if it be of God, you cannot overthrow it, lest perhaps you be found even to fight against God. And they consented to him.

Deuteronomy 32:15 The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and gross, he forsook God who made him, and departed from God his saviour.

Job 9:4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath resisted him, and hath had peace?

Job 40:9,10 And hast thou an arm like God, and canst thou thunder with a voice like him? . . .

Psalm 2:12 Embrace discipline, lest at any time the Lord be angry, and you perish from the just way. [13] When his wrath shall be kindled in a short time, blessed are all they that trust in him.

Isaiah 45:9 Woe to him that gainsayeth his maker, a sherd of the earthen pots: shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it: What art thou making, and thy work is without hands?

1 Corinthians 10:22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? All things are lawful for me: but all things are not expedient.

Context
The Road to Damascus
4And falling on the ground, he heard a voice saying to him: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? 5Who said: Who art thou, Lord? And he: I am Jesus whom thou persecutest. It is hard for thee to kick against the goad. 6And he, trembling and astonished, said: Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?…
Cross References
Acts 9:4
And falling on the ground, he heard a voice saying to him: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

Acts 9:6
And he, trembling and astonished, said: Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?

Acts 10:14
But Peter said: Far be it from me. For I never did eat any thing that is common and unclean.

Acts 26:14
And when we were all fallen down on the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me in the Hebrew tongue: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? It is hard for thee to kick against the good.

Philippians 3:12
Not as though I had already attained, or were already perfect: but I follow after, if I may by any means apprehend, wherein I am also apprehended by Christ Jesus.

Acts 9:4
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