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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Acts 26:1 - 26:1
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Act 26:1-32. Paul’s defense of himself before King Agrippa, who pronounces him innocent, but concludes that the appeal to Caesar must be carried out.
This speech, though in substance the same as that from the fortress stairs of Jerusalem (Act 22:1-29), differs from it in being less directed to meet the charge of apostasy from the Jewish faith, and giving more enlarged views of his remarkable change and apostolic commission, and the divine support under which he was enabled to brave the hostility of his countrymen.
Agrippa said - Being a king he appears to have presided.
Paul stretched forth the hand - chained to a soldier (Act 26:29, and see on Act 12:6).