For the king knows about these matters, and I can speak freely to him. I am confident that none of this has escaped his notice, because it was not done in a corner.
Paul turns to Agrippa because he has better hope in him. He appeals not merely to facts, that these things happened, but to Scripture itself, which must carry its own weight. A Jew cannot lawfully diminish its authority by a single letter. Agrippa may not revere God's Word as he ought, yet from childhood he knows it contains nothing but the oracles of God, and that reverence, however weak, restrains him from outright rejection.
AI summary
Paul had scarcely touched the power of Christ's death and resurrection, the very heartbeat of his cause, when Festus cuts him off, calling him mad. But this is the expedient of a coward: by declaring Paul insane, Festus avoids both condemning him as a criminal and believing him as a preacher. A convenient escape, but a contemptible one.
AI summary
Commenting on Acts 26:24-32
King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets?.... What they have said concerning the person, office, sufferings, death, and resurrection of Christ, and that what they have said is fulfilled in Jesus of Nazareth? I know that thou believest; that what the prophets said were true, and are accomplished.