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1. Agrippa may know the prophets, and still not know Him of whom the prophets testify. An acquaintance with Christ's forerunners or an intimacy with Christ's followers is not an acquaintance with Christ Himself.

2. Agrippa may even believe the prophets without believing on Christ. Many a man thus accepts Christ impliedly and rejects Him practically.

3. Agrippa, like many another unbeliever, dismisses this most important matter with a flippant remark. How many souls have been lost by just such unwillingness to be candid with the truth!

4. Paul is dead in earnest, however flippant Agrippa may be. Christ's followers cannot afford to answer sneer with sneer, or jest with jest. The question of a soul's salvation is a supremely serious matter.

5. Paul is willing to do little or to do much to win a soul for Christ. Too many of Christ's followers have manifested a strong preference for doing little toward that end.

6. Paul knew he was better off than Agrippa and his court, despite their rank and freedom. Envy is a decidedly unchristian quality — the true Christian has nothing to envy.

7. Paul was not vindicated — he vindicated himself. That the Christian must ever do if it is done at all. He can employ no defence so strong as self-defence. He can present no plea so convincing as that of his own walk and conversation in presence of the scornful Festus and sneering Agrippa.

8. Paul vindicated Christ's cause in vindicating himself. In every Christian's enterprises Christ is a partner, and His credit gains or suffers according as the human partner does his best or his worst.

(S. S. Times.)

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KJV: King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest.

WEB: King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe."