In verses 13-14: Several details heighten the earlier accounts: brighter than the sun; we had fallen to the ground; a voice in the Hebrew language.
Kicking against the goads is the action of a stubborn resistance to divine prodding.
In verse 16: To serve and testify corresponds tot he calling of ministers and witnesses (Lk 1.2; Acts 1.22; 2.32; 10.39, 41).
In verses 17-18: Paul's mission is again focused on the gentiles (see 22.21 in contrast to 9.15) to bring them into the promises of Israel.
The text echoes with the promises of light and forgiveness of isa 42.7, 16, and Acts 2.38-39.
Satan is directly mentioned in Lk 10.18; 11.18; 13.16; 22.3, 31; Acts 5.3.
In verse 20: Paul's account focuses on Palestine (1.8) with no mention of his mission in Asia Minor or Greece.
In verse 22: Like Jesus in Luke 22.27, 44 (see also Lk 16.31), Paul claims the fulfillment of the prophets, and Moses.
In verse 23: The necessity of the suffering of the Messiah is a central affirmation in the scriptural interpretation of Luke Acts (see Lk 24.25-27; Acts 3.18).
The promise of light both to our people and to the Gentiles is a thematic allusion to Isa 49.6 ( see also 1.8; 13.47).
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