Kisah Para Rasul 9:3-6

9:3 As he was going along, approaching ¹  Damascus, suddenly a light from heaven flashed ²  around him. 9:4 He ³  fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, ⁴  why are you persecuting me?” ⁵  9:5 So he said, “Who are you, Lord?” He replied, “I am Jesus whom you are persecuting! 9:6 But stand up ⁶  and enter the city and you will be told ⁷  what you must do.”

Kisah Para Rasul 9:15-16

9:15 But the Lord said to him, “Go, because this man is my chosen instrument ⁸  to carry my name before Gentiles and kings and the people of Israel. ⁹  9:16 For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name.” ¹⁰ 

[9:3]  ¹ tn Grk “As he was going along, it happened that when he was approaching.” The phrase ἐγένετο (egeneto, “it happened that”), common in Luke (69 times) and Acts (54 times), is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

[9:3]  ² tn Or “shone” (BDAG 799 s.v. περιαστράπτω). The light was more brilliant than the sun according to Acts 26:13.

[9:4]  ³ tn Grk “and he.” Because of the length of the Greek sentence, the conjunction καί (kai) has not been translated here. Instead a new English sentence is begun.

[9:4]  ⁴ tn The double vocative suggests emotion.

[9:4]  ⁵ sn Persecuting me. To persecute the church is to persecute Jesus.

[9:6]  ⁶ tn Or “But arise.”

[9:6]  ⁷ tn Literally a passive construction, “it will be told to you.” This has been converted to another form of passive construction in the translation.

[9:15]  ⁸ tn Or “tool.”

[9:15]  ⁹ tn Grk “the sons of Israel.” In Acts, Paul is a minister to all nations, including Israel (Rom 1:16-17).

[9:16]  ¹⁰ tn Or “because of my name.” BDAG 1031 s.v. ὑπέρ 2 lists Acts 9:16 as an example of ὑπέρ (Juper) used to indicate “the moving cause or reason, because of, for the sake of, for.”