14We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew dialect,[] ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’[]
Footnotes
26:14Or Aramaic. The Greek word is Hebrew but likely refers to the Aramaic dialect spoken by the Jews at that time and place.
26:14Goadsare pointed sticks used to urge or direct an animal. To kick against the goads means to resist stubbornly.