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Acts 9:4

And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

KJV

καὶ πεσὼν ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν ἤκουσεν φωνὴν λέγουσαν αὐτῷ, Σαοὺλ Σαούλ, τί με διώκεις;

Greek NT

Et cadens in terram audivit vocem dicentem sibi : Saule, Saule, quid me persequeris ?

Vulgate

and he fell upon the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

ASV

And falling on the ground, he heard a voice saying to him: Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Σαούλ
saoul
noun · 9×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γῆ
ge
noun · 251×
διώκω
dioko
verb · 44×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
πίπτω
pipto
verb · 89×
τίς
tis
interrogative_pronoun · 533×
φωνή
phone
noun · 139×
ἀκούω
akouo
verb · 427×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἐπί
epi
preposition · 888×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×

Themes

Theophany

Miracle

Historic Christian voices

11 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§598In her Magisterial teaching of the faith and in the witness of her saints, the Church has never forgotten that "sinners were the authors and the ministers of all the sufferings that the divine Redeemer endured."389 Taking into account the fact that our sins affect Christ himself,390 The Church does not hesitate to impute to Christians the gravest responsibility for the torments…
§639The mystery of Christ's resurrection is a real event, with manifestations that were historically verified, as the New Testament bears witness. In about A.D. 56 St. Paul could already write to the Corinthians: "I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, and that he was buried, that he was raise…
Homilies on Matthew · 2 passages
2. In this case indeed He discloses also another sign, and that no small one, of His own Godhead, and of His equality in honor with the Father. For whereas they said, To unbind sins pertains to God only, He not only unbinds sins, but also before this He makes another kind of display in a thing which pertained to God only; the publishing the secrets in the heart. For neither had…
Source. Translated by George Prevost and revised by M.B. Riddle. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 10. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1888.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/200188.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Advent is Kevin Knight. My email a…
Chapter 9.—How Like the Prophecy About Christ in the 89th Psalm is to the Things Promised in Nathan’s Prophecy in the Books of Samuel. Wherefore also in the 89th Psalm, of which the title is, “An instruction for himself by Ethan the Israelite,” mention is made of the promises God made to king David, and some things are there added similar to those found in the Book of Samuel, s…
§53As Bellarmine notes with acumen and accuracy,[93] this appellation of the Body of Christ is not to be explained solely by the fact that Christ must be called the Head of His Mystical Body, but also by the fact that He so sustains the Church, and so in a certain sense lives in the Church, that she is, as it were, another Christ. The Doctor of the Gentiles, in his letter to the C…
1. How Christians are the Spiritual Israel. That people which was called of old the people of God was divided into twelve tribes, and over and above the other tribes it had the levitical order, which itself again carried on the service of God in various priestly and levitical suborders. In the same manner, it appears to me that the whole people of Christ, when we regard it in t…
80. Moreover, that the Son should be speaking of the impress that is within us as if it were Himself, should not startle any one, considering (for we must not shrink from repetition ) that, when Saul was persecuting the Church, in which was His impress and image, He said, as if He were Himself under persecution, 'Saul, why do you persecute Me Acts 9:4?' Therefore (as has been s…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 4:7 — For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
  • 1Cor 12:12 — For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
  • 2Chr 14:11 — And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name
  • 2Cor 10:5 — Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
  • Acts 10:3 — He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius.
  • Acts 22:7 — And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
  • Acts 26:14 — And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
  • Deut 23:4 — Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.
  • Eph 5:30 — For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
  • Exod 3:4 — And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.
  • Exod 3:4 — And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.
  • Exod 23:22 — But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.
  • Ezek 1:28 — As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I
  • Gen 3:9 — And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
  • Gen 16:8 — And he said, Hagar, Sarai’s maid, whence camest thou? and whither wilt thou go? And she said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.
  • Gen 22:11 — And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
  • Gen 46:2 — And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.
  • Isa 63:9 — In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
  • John 5:16 — And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.
  • John 18:6 — As soon then as he had said unto them, I am he, they went backward, and fell to the ground.
  • John 20:16 — Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master.
  • John 21:15 — So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs.
  • Luke 10:41 — And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things:
  • Luke 22:31 — And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat:
  • Matt 25:40 — And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
  • Matt 25:40 — And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
  • Matt 25:45 — Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
  • Num 16:45 — Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.
  • Rom 11:22 — Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
  • Zech 2:8 — For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.