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Mosiah 27:13 · Acts 9:4

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Book of Mormon Mosiah 27:13
"Alma, arise and stand forth, for why persecutest thou the church of God?"
New Testament Acts 9:4
"Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?"

Shared words: why persecutest thou

The heaven-sent voice's challenge to a persecutor — the shared why-persecutest-thou opening. Scope = the whole corpus (BoM + PoGP + D&C + KJV OT/NT; corpus membership updated 2026-08-10 at the D&C freeze — both counts below were re-derived at that scope and are unchanged, with zero D&C carriers). 'why persecutest thou' occurs at exactly 4 verses corpus-wide: Acts 9:4, Acts 22:7, Acts 26:14 (the voice to Saul, all '…thou me') and Mosiah 27:13 (the angel to Alma, '…thou the church of God'). The word 'persecutest' occurs nowhere else in the corpus (7 total: Acts 9:4/9:5/22:7/22:8/26:14/26:15 + Mosiah 27:13). Variant, reported not scored: Saul's voice adds 'it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks' (Acts 9:5, 26:14) — that phrase has no Book of Mormon counterpart. Standing disclosure required on the host. Reported as textual fact; origin out of scope in both directions.

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