“And I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?'.”
And the result was that he had fallen to the ground and had heard a voice saying, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?' In Paul's day much was made of the ‘bath qol', the whisper of a voice from heaven. But he had heard the voice loud and clear. And the voice had asked him why he was persecuting ‘the Lord'. His very repetition of this was a strong hint to his listeners to consider whether they too, by their actions against Paul, were persecuting the Lord.