We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice speaking to me in Aramaic, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.”
So he approached where I was standing; when he came near, I was terrified and fell face down. ‘Son of man,’ he said to me, ‘understand that the vision refers to the time of the end.’
When David looked up and saw the angel of the Lord standing between earth and heaven, with his drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem, David and the elders, covered in sackcloth, fell face down.
When the flame went up from the altar to the sky, the angel of the Lord went up in its flame. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell face down on the ground.
Fire came from the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the fat portions on the altar. And when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell face down.
While he was still speaking, suddenly a bright cloud covered them, and a voice from the cloud said, ‘This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well-pleased. Listen to him! ’