It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks] These words, which the RV omits as an interpolation from Acts 26:14, mean that the rôle of a persecutor is impossible to Paul. Paul is really in the position of a plough-ox. Jesus is his driver, and holds the goad. Paul can no more resist Jesus than the plough-ox can resist his driver. There is probably no allusion to stings of conscience, as some have supposed.

6. According to Acts 26:16, Jesus also told Paul that his mission would be to preach to the Gentiles.

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