And when we had all fallen to the ground, 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.'I get a bit worried when extra stuff gets tacked onto a story in the Bible that's been told before, especially when it's in a retelling versus the original. Here, Paul has added new parts of conversation to between him and Jesus when he was struck blind. They don't change the point of what happened, but they definitely change the tone.
Suddenly, Paul wasn't just told to go into the city. Instead, he was told he was wrong to resist Jesus, and what his new mission in life would be. This may just be me being paranoid or having watched too many procedurals, but this feels like he's embellishing the original events.
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