Acts 26:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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. ”

Acts 26:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See this passage explained in the notes on Acts 9:5 , etc.
Acts 26:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Paul Speaks before Agrippa. It is Agrippa the vassal king, not Festus the representative of the sovereign power, who calls on Paul to speak, and to whom Paul addresses himself throughout, even afte...
Acts 26:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

fallen . fallen down. Greek. katapipto. Only here and Acts 28:6 . earth . Greek. ge . App-129. speaking . Greek. lalo. App-121., but the texts read "saying" ( lego ). and saying . The te...
Acts 26:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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.
Acts 26:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

To kick against the pricks.— Or, Against the goad.
Acts 26:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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....
Acts 26:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Defence before Agrippa 1-32. St. Paul before Agrippa. This speech, though in form a defence to the Jews, is really intended by St. Luke to be St. Paul's defence to the world—an apology for his who...
Acts 26:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. — See Note on Acts 9:5 . Here there is no doubt as to the genuineness of the reading.
Acts 26:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Obedient to His Heavenly Vision Acts 26:12-21 Nowhere else is there such deliverance from the glare and cross-lights of earth as is afforded by a vision of the face of Jesus, brighter than the...
Acts 26:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Agrippa intimated to Paul that he might speak, and the apostle spent a moment in introductory words, and then uttered his great apologia, in which a twofold purpose is evident, first, his own defense...
Acts 26:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently. (4) My manner of life from my youth, which was at the...
Acts 26:14 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

THE VOICE FROM HEAVEN ‘I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying … It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.’ Acts 26:14 So far as we know, those words were the first with which the...
Acts 26:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And when we were all fallen to the earth ,.... Saul, and the men that were with him, for fear of the divine Majesty, who by this extraordinary light was thought to be present: the other narratives o...
Acts 26:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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....
Acts 26:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Whereupon, as I went to Damascus , &c. See notes on Acts 9:3-9 , and Acts 22:5-11 ; where the substance of this paragraph occurs, and is explained. At mid-day, O king Most seasonably, in the...
Acts 26:14 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

At Agrippa's invitation to him to speak, Paul is fully prepared. He expresses his happiness at being privileged to answer for himself to the king, especially because he knew Agrippa to be an expert i...
Acts 26:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Paul's Fifth Defence. 12 Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests, 13 At midday, O ki...
Acts 26:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

In the Hebrew tongue; whereby it appears, that Paul spake not now before Agrippa in the Hebrew tongue, as he did before the Jews at Jerusalem, Acts 21:40 . It is hard for thee to kick against t...
Acts 26:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“Whereupon as I journeyed to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests, at midday, O king, I saw on the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round a...
Acts 26:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 26:9 . Commences the second part of Paul’s apology. Paul would not despair of converting his countrymen from doubt to belief, since he himself had undergone a similar mental...
Acts 26:14 - Scofield Reference Notes

heard ( See Scofield) - ( Acts 9:7 ).
Acts 26:14 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Acts 26 St. Paul's Defence before Agrippa. Observe: I. What is the central truth of the Christian system. It is a very suggestive fact that Festus had got hold of the kernel of the whole subject...
Acts 26:14 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Three times we have in Holy Writ a graphic report of the conversion of Paul. This may be accounted for partly from its being one of the most remarkable events of early sacred history, Paul having had...
Acts 26:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Acts 26:1 . Then Paul stretched forth the hand, the usual signal to gain attention; it indicates presence of mind in the speaker, and that his auditory is large. Though the notice was short, the c...
Acts 26:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Paul before Agrippa Here is all that Christianity ever asked for: an opportunity to speak for itself; and its answer is the...
Acts 26:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Acts 26:1 And for then, A.V.; his for the, A.V.; made his defense for answered for himself, A.V. Agrippa said . It was by the courtesy of Festus that Agrippa thus to...
Acts 26:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Paul's recital of his miraculous conversion:
Acts 26:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 10:22 ; Acts 21:40 ; Acts 22:2 ; Acts 22:7-9 ; Acts 9:4 ; Acts 9:5 ; Proverbs 13:15 ; Zechariah 12:2 ; Zechariah 2:8
Acts 26:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

In the Hebrew tongue — St. Paul was not now speaking in Hebrew: when he was, Acts 23:7 , he did not add, In the Hebrew tongue. Christ used this tongue both on earth and from heaven.

Acts 26:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Acts 26:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 26:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Acts 26:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Acts 26:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Acts 26:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Acts 26:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 26:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Acts 26:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Acts 26:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Acts 26:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Acts 26:14 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Acts 26:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Acts 26:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Acts 26:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Acts 26:14 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 26:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Acts 26:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Acts 26:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 26:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Acts 26:14 - Scofield Reference Notes

Acts 26:14 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Acts 26:14 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Acts 26:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Acts 26:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

Acts 26:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Acts 26:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Acts 26:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 26:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes