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Acts 26:14
New English Translation

14 When we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic,[a] ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? You are hurting yourself[b] by kicking against the goads.’[c]

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  1. Acts 26:14 tn Grk “in the Hebrew language.” See Acts 22:7 and 9:4.
  2. Acts 26:14 tn Grk “It is hard for you.”
  3. Acts 26:14 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.
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