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Acts 22:7 KJV
Acts · chapter 22 · verse 7
And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?Acts 22:7 · King James Version
Acts 22:7 in context
5As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished.
6And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me.
7And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
8And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.
9And they that were with me saw indeed the light, and were afraid; but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- groundedaphosbottom, base, groundG1475 →
- sayinglegōto say, to speak, affirm over, maintain, to teach, to exhort, advise, to command, direct…G3004 →
- heardakouōto be endowed with the faculty of hearing, not deaf, to hear, to attend to, consider what…G191 →
- voicephōnēa sound, a tone, of inanimate things, as musical instruments, a voice, of the sound of…G5456 →
- fellpiptōto descend from a higher place to a lower, to fall , to be thrust down, metaph. to fall…G4098 →
- SaulsaoulSaul = " desired" , the Jewish name of the apostle Paul, the son of Kish and the…G4549 →
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Paul here gives such an account of himself as might serve not only to satisfy the chief captain that he was not that Egyptian he took him to be, but the Jews also that he was not that enemy to their church and nation, to their law and temple, they took him to be, and that what he did in preaching Christ, and…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 3-21