Acts 9:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵And 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.

Acts 9:5 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Timothy 1:13
Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
1 Samuel 3:4-10
That the LORD called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I. …
Isaiah 45:9
Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
Job 9:4
He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?
Job 40:9-10
Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him? …

Topics

Accusation, False Afflictions and Adversities Apostles Bigotry Call Depravity of Man Devotion Dream

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-9)

We found mention made of Saul twice or thrice in the story of Stephen, for the sacred penman longed to come to his story; and now we are come to it, not quite taking leave of Peter but from henceforward being mostly taken up with Paul the apostle of the Gentiles, as Peter was of the circumcision. His name in Hebrew was Saul—desired, though as remarkably little in stature as his namesake king Saul…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

4-6. he fell to the earth--and his companions with him (Ac 26:14), who “saw the light” (Ac 22:9). and heard a voice saying unto him--“in the Hebrew tongue” (Ac 26:14). Saul, Saul--a reduplication full of tenderness [De Wette]. Though his name was soon changed into “Paul,” we find him, in both his own narratives of the scene, after the lapse of so many years, retaining the original form, as not dar…