Persecuting the Lord

While [Paul] assumes he is persecuting the church, Saul of Tarsus is arrested by the voice that pointedly asks him why he is persecuting the Lord Jesus. Such is the bond of union between Christ and his people that to persecute them is to persecute him.

 

Sinclair Ferguson, The Holy Spirit, ed. Gerald Bray, Contours of Christian Theology (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1996), 108.