Discovery BoxActs 7:26-27 
Context7:26 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
Context26:14 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.
