Acts 25:22-27 Then Agrippa said to Festus, I would also hear the man myself. To morrow, said he, you shall hear him.… The scene is highly characteristic. The round of festivities in honour of the illustrious visitors began to flag-some novel show would be desirable. A Jewish heretic would interest Agrippa, who was himself a Jew. Berenice was clever and cultivated, and all women loved eloquence and genius, and Paul had both; and Berenice also loved novel and strange excitements. The upper classes then, as now, sated with luxury End refinement, found a certain fascination about prison life — out-of-the-way scent connected with police courts — human crime and misery. They liked a criminal cause celebre then just as they do now. An afternoon with Paul was the very thing to suit Agrippa and Berenice. (H. R. Haweis, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: Then Agrippa said unto Festus, I would also hear the man myself. To morrow, said he, thou shalt hear him. |
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