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Acts 26:14
New Living Translation
Acts 26:14
New Living Translation
14 We all fell down, and I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic,[a] ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is useless for you to fight against my will.[b]’
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Acts 26:14
Amplified Bible
Acts 26:14
Amplified Bible
14 And when we all had fallen to the ground, I heard a voice in the Hebrew dialect (Jewish Aramaic) saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? [a]It is hard for you to kick [repeatedly] against the [b]goads [offering pointless resistance].’
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- Acts 26:14 An ancient Greek proverb dating back to the time of Euripides.
- Acts 26:14 These were wooden shafts (like broomsticks) with a pointed piece of metal on one end, used by the farmer to keep an ox going in the right direction as it pulled a plow. Jesus was “prodding” Paul to take the proper direction in his life, and Paul had been resisting.
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