Acts 26:21 - Exposition

This cause for these causes, A.V.; seized for caught, A.V.; essayed for went about, A.V. For this cause . Here again is a most telling statement. "I have spent my life in trying to persuade men to repent and turn to God, and for doing so the Jews seek to kill me. Can this be right? Will not you, O King Agrippa, protect me from such an unjust requital?" To kill me ; διαχειρίσασθαι , here and in Acts 5:30 only in the New Testament; not in the LXX ., but in Polybius, and in Hippocrates and Galen, of surgical operations.