“Short time or long,” Paul replied, “I wish to God that not only you but all who hear me this day may become what I am, except for these chains.”
We have reason to think that Paul had a great deal more to say in defence of the gospel he preached, and for the honour of it, and to recommend it to the good opinion of this noble audience; he had just fallen upon that which was the life of the cause - the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and here he is in...
Commenting on Acts 26:24-32
And when he had thus spoken,.... These words are omitted in the Alexandrian copy, the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Ethiopic versions: the king rose up; from the judgment seat; that is, King Agrippa: and the governor; the Roman governor, Festus: and Bernice: the sister of King Agrippa: and they that sat with them; either in council, or to hear; the chief captains, and principal inhabitants of Caesarea.
Verse 29. I would to God. I pray to God; I earnestly desire it of God. This shows (l.) Paul's intense desire that Agrippa, and all who heard him, might be saved. (2.) His steady and constant belief that none but God could incline them to become altogether Christians. Hence he expressed it as the object which he earnestly sought of God, that they might be true believers.