So on the next day Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp, and they entered the audience hall with the military tribunes and the prominent men of the city. Then, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in. And Festus said, “King Agrippa and all who are present with us, you see this man about whom the whole Jewish people petitioned me, both in Jerusalem and here, shouting that he ought not to live any longer. But I found that he had done nothing deserving death. And as he himself appealed to the emperor, I decided to go ahead and send him. But I have nothing definite to write to my lord about him. Therefore I have brought him before you all, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that, after we have examined him, I may have something to write. For it seems to me unreasonable, in sending a prisoner, not to indicate the charges against him.”
Paul was brought in - "But now as Agrippa beheld Paul, did he recall his great grandfather, Herod, and the slaughter of the innocents? (Matt 2:16). Di he recall his great uncle, Herod Antipas, and the murder of John the Baptist? (Matt 14:1-11). Did he recall his father, Herod Agrippa I and the murder of James? (Acts 12:1-2). did it occur to him that all these ancestors of his had died or been disgraced soon after their commission of these crimes? Did the 'great pomp' of his own parade to the Audience Hall remind him of the time, sixteen years ago, when the people had shouted that his much-more-powerful father was a god, and how he had been instantly stricken with death and eaten by worms 'because he gave not God the glory'? (Acts 12:21-23). When we consider the extreme vanity and self-importance of this phantom king, it is doubtful that any of these things even entered his mind." (Stam)
my lord - "The Greek word (kuriO) corresponds to the Latin 'dominus', a title which had been refused by both Octavian and Tiberius as trespassing on the prerogatives of deity and as savouring of despotism. Caligula, however, accepted it, as did also his successors. It became a usual appellation of the emperors." (Walker)
Paul was brought in - "But now as Agrippa beheld Paul, did he recall his great grandfather, Herod, and the slaughter of the innocents? (Matt 2:16). Di he recall his great uncle, Herod Antipas, and the murder of John the Baptist? (Matt 14:1-11). Did he recall his father, Herod Agrippa I and the murder of James? (Acts 12:1-2). did it occur to him that all these ancestors of his had died or been disgraced soon after their commission of these crimes? Did the 'great pomp' of his own parade to the Audience Hall remind him of the time, sixteen years ago, when the people had shouted that his much-more-powerful father was a god, and how he had been instantly stricken with death and eaten by worms 'because he gave not God the glory'? (Acts 12:21-23). When we consider the extreme vanity and self-importance of this phantom king, it is doubtful that any of these things even entered his mind." (Stam)
my lord - "The Greek word (kuriO) corresponds to the Latin 'dominus', a title which had been refused by both Octavian and Tiberius as trespassing on the prerogatives of deity and as savouring of despotism. Caligula, however, accepted it, as did also his successors. It became a usual appellation of the emperors." (Walker)
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