Acts 26:14

To kick against the pricks.— Or, Against the goad.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See this passage explained in the notes on Acts 9:5 , etc.
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...
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 t...
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...
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 m...
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....
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.
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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 expla...
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, es...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Paul's Fifth Defence. 12 Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commi...
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, Ac...
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...
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 belie...
Scofield Reference Notes

heard ( See Scofield) - ( Acts 9:7 ).
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 Fest...
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 remarkab...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Acts 26:1 . Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself: I...
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 aud...
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 oppo...
The Biblical Illustrator

Whereupon as I went to Damascus. The conversion of Saul of Tarsus I. His character before his conversion. 1. He was a moral man ( Philippian...
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...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Paul's recital of his miraculous conversion:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
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
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 to...

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.

Related Commentaries of Acts 26:14

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Scofield Reference Notes

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Acts 26:14