Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Acts 9:5
Who art thou, Lord? Sure that it was a supernatural communication,
though he might possibly suspect its source, he did not yet know that
it came from Christ. Perhaps at times he had had misgivings that he
might be wrong, but he was sincere.
I am Jesus. It is not said, "the Christ", but Jesus, the crucified
one against whom Saul was raging. Had the answer been "the Christ", or
the Son of God, Saul might still have doubted whether this was Jesus.
[It is] hard for thee to kick against the pricks. Omitted here by
the Revised Version, but found in Acts 26:14. The idea is that he is
injuring himself, like the ox that kicks back on the goads used to urge
him forward.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Acts 9:5
Acts 22:6
Acts 26:12-14
Acts 26:14
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