Acts 7:26-27

7:26 The next day Moses 1  saw two men 2  fighting, and tried to make peace between 3  them, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers; why are you hurting one another?’ 7:27 But the man who was unfairly hurting his neighbor pushed 4  Moses 5  aside, saying, ‘Who made 6  you a ruler and judge over us?

Acts 26:14

26:14 When we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic, 7  ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? You are hurting yourself 8  by kicking against the goads.’ 9 

1 tn Grk “he”; the referent (Moses) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

2 tn Grk “saw them”; the context makes clear that two individuals were involved (v. 27).

3 tn Or “tried to reconcile” (BDAG 964-65 s.v. συναλλάσσω).

4 tn Or “repudiated Moses,” “rejected Moses” (BDAG 126-27 s.v. ἀπωθέω 2).

5 tn Grk “him”; the referent (Moses) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

6 tn Or “appointed.”

7 tn Grk “in the Hebrew language.” See Acts 22:7 and 9:4.

8 tn Grk “It is hard for you.”

9 tn “Goads” are pointed sticks used to direct a draft animal (an idiom for stubborn resistance). See BDAG 539-40 s.v. κέντρον 2.

sn Sayings which contain the imagery used here (kicking against the goads) were also found in Greek writings; see Pindar, Pythians 2.94-96; Euripides, Bacchae 795.