“And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.”
'Who are you, Lord?' Saul asked. 'I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,' he replied.—Saul's single question opens his entire identity to radical reconstruction. The revelation is stark and personal: not a doctrine or principle, but the risen Jesus himself. The Greek word kyrios (Lord) here carries both the ordinary sense of 'sir' and the profound sense of the divine name itself. Saul's blindness to the physical light parallels his former spiritual blindness.
Church Fathers on Acts 9:5
And he said, Who are You Lord? Acts 9:5 thus in the first place confessing himself His servant. And the Lord said, I am Jesus, whom you persecute. think not your warring is with men. And they which were with him heard the voice of Paul, but saw no person to whom he answered — for (the Lord) suffered them to be hearers of what was less important. Had they heard the other Voice, they would not have believed; but perceiving Paul answering (some person), they marvelled.
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