Acts 25:22-27

Agrippa desired to hear Paul Acts 25:22-27: Agrippa was a Jew by profession. He desired to hear Paul in order to gain information about the dispute between the Jews and Christians. Festus was happy to arrange for him to hear Paul. The next day when the meeting was arranged "Agrippa and Bernice made a big show as they came into the meeting room. High ranking army officers and leading citizens of the town were also there."

When Paul was brought in Festus told Agrippa that this is the man that all the Jews are demanding that he be put to death. It was his death they sought, and nothing else would satisfy them. Lysias had earlier said, "I perceived him to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds." (Acts 23:2) Festus also admitted that when he examined Paul he found no crime worthy of death. However, he did feel that sense Paul was to be sent to Rome that Agrippa might help him to have some charges to write concerning him. He said, "It makes no sense to send a prisoner to the Emperor without stating the charges against him." In Acts chapter twenty-six we will hear Paul's defense before King Agrippa. Paul almost persuaded him to become a Christian.