Acts 25:22

And Agrippa said unto Festus I also could wish to hear the man myself. Tomorrow saith he, thou shalt hear him.

I also could wish to hear him ... Agrippa and his sister must have heard many things about Jesus Christ and the faith regarding him, because it was their great-grandfather who had slaughtered the innocent children of Judaea in a vain attempt to murder the Lord in infancy; it was their father who restored the dominion of Herod the Great, seized and executed James the apostle with the sword, and imprisoned Peter who was delivered by an angel. He was the same Herod, whom the Lord slew at Caesarea in 44 A.D. It was also an uncle of theirs who had murdered John the Baptist and mocked the Lord during his Passion.[18]

In view of who Agrippa and Bernice were, their willingness to give Christianity a polite hearing was a great victory for the faith, despite the obvious fact that the hearing was arranged somewhat as a form of entertainment. In this scene, there began to be fulfilled the promise of the Lord that Paul would bear testimony and "his name" before the "Gentiles and kings, and the children of Israel" (Acts 9:15 and Isaiah 62:2).

The setting of this scene was Caesarea, where some thirteen years earlier Herod Agrippa I, the father of this King Agrippa, Bernice and Drusilla, suffered a divine judgment in a sudden and horrible death.