This document is about Herod_Agrippa_II. For other homonyms, refer to the Herod document. Herod Agrippa II is the son of Herod Agrippa I. He is recorded as Agrippa in the Book of Acts. During his reign, when he went to greet Governor Festus in Caesarea, he saw the imprisoned Apostle Paul and heard his testimony.
Acts 25:13As he stayed there many days, Festus laid Paul’s case before the king, saying, “There is a certain man left a prisoner by Felix;Acts 25:14about whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, asking for a sentence against him.Acts 25:15I answered them that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man to destruction before the accused has met the accusers face to face and has had opportunity to make his defense concerning the matter laid against him.Acts 25:16When therefore they had come together here, I didn’t delay, but on the next day sat on the judgment seat and commanded the man to be brought.Acts 25:17When the accusers stood up, they brought no charges against him of such things as I supposed;Acts 25:18but had certain questions against him about their own religion, and about one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.Acts 25:19Being perplexed how to inquire concerning these things, I asked whether he was willing to go to Jerusalem and there be judged concerning these matters.Acts 25:20But when Paul had appealed to be kept for the decision of the emperor, I commanded him to be kept until I could send him to Caesar.”Acts 25:21Agrippa said to Festus), “I also would like to hear the man myself.” “Tomorrow,” he said, “you shall hear him.”Acts 25:22So on the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice had come with great pomp, and they had entered into the place of hearing with the commanding officers and the principal men of the city, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.
Acts 26:1“I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before you today concerning all the things that I am accused by the Jews,Acts 26:2especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently.Acts 26:3“Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem;Acts 26:4having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.Acts 26:5Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,Acts 26:6which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa!Acts 26:7Why is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise the dead?Acts 26:8“I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.Acts 26:9I also did this in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.Acts 26:10Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.Acts 26:11“Whereupon as I traveled to Damascus with the authority and commission from the chief priests,Acts 26:12at noon, O king, I saw on the way a light from the sky, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who traveled with me.Acts 26:13When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’Acts 26:14“I said, ‘Who are you, Lord?’ “He said, ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.Acts 26:15But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you;Acts 26:16delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,Acts 26:17to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’Acts 26:18“Therefore, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,Acts 26:19but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.Acts 26:20For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple and tried to kill me.Acts 26:21Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen,Acts 26:22how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”Acts 26:23As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul), you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!”Acts 26:24But he said, “I am not crazy, most excellent Festus, but boldly declare words of truth and reasonableness.Acts 26:25For the king knows of these things, to whom also I speak freely. For I am persuaded that none of these things is hidden from him, for this has not been done in a corner.Acts 26:26King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe.”Acts 26:27Agrippa said to Paul, “With a little persuasion are you trying to make me a Christian?”Acts 26:28Paul said, “I pray to God, that whether with little or with much, not only you, but also all that hear me today, might become such as I am, except for these bonds.”Acts 26:29The king rose up with the governor, and Bernice, and those who sat with them.
Acts 26:30When they had withdrawn, they spoke to one another, saying, “This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds.”Acts 26:31Agrippa said to Festus, “This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”Acts 26:32Agrippa said to Festus, “This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”