Acts 26:14

26:14 When we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in Aramaic,43 ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? You are hurting yourself44 by kicking against the goads.’45

43	tn Grk “in the Hebrew language.” See Acts 22:7 and 9:4.
44	tn Grk “It is hard for you.”
45	tn “Goads” are pointed sticks used to direct a draft animal (an idiom for stubborn resistance). See BDAG 539–40 s.v. κέντρον 2. sn Sayings which contain the imagery used here (kicking against the goads) were also found in Greek writings; see Pindar, Pythians 2.94–96; Euripides, Bacchae 795.