Discovery BoxActs 9:5 
Context9:5 So he said, “Who are you, Lord?” He replied, “I am Jesus whom you are persecuting!
Acts 9:4
Context9:4 He 1 fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, 2 why are you persecuting me?” 3
Acts 22:7-8
Context22:7 Then I 4 fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’ 22:8 I answered, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ He said to me, ‘I am Jesus the Nazarene, whom you are persecuting.’
Acts 26:15
Context26:15 So I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ And the Lord replied, 5 ‘I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.
1 tn Grk “and he.” Because of the length of the Greek sentence, the conjunction καί (kai) has not been translated here. Instead a new English sentence is begun.
2 tn The double vocative suggests emotion.
3 sn Persecuting me. To persecute the church is to persecute Jesus.
4 tn This is a continuation of the same sentence in Greek using the connective τέ (te), but due to the length and complexity of the Greek sentence a new sentence was begun in the translation here. To indicate the logical sequence for the modern English reader, τέ was translated as “then.”
5 tn Grk “said.”
