Acts 26:14
ContextNETBible | When we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic, 1 ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? You are hurting yourself 2 by kicking against the goads.’ 3 |
XREF | Pr 13:15; Zec 2:8; Zec 12:2; Ac 9:4,5; Ac 21:40; Ac 22:2; Ac 22:7-9; 1Co 10:22 |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Grk “in the Hebrew language.” See Acts 22:7 and 9:4. 2 tn Grk “It is hard for you.” 3 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. |