Acts 25:22-27

"Then Agrippa said to Festus, 'I also would like to hear the man myself.' 'Tomorrow,' he said, 'you shall hear him.'"

"So the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice had come with great pomp, and had entered the auditorium with the commanders and the prominent men of the city, at Festus' command Paul was brought in."

"And Festus said: 'King Agrippa and all the men who are here present with us, you see this man about whom the whole assembly of the Jews petitioned me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying out that he was not fit to live any longer.'"

"'But when I found that he had committed nothing deserving of death, and that he himself had appealed to Augustus, I decided to send him.'"

"'I have nothing certain to write to my lord concerning him. Therefore I have brought him out before you, and especially before you, king Agrippa, so that after the examination has taken place I may have something to write.'"

"'For it seems to me unreasonable to send a prisoner and not to specify the charges against him.'"

(So, through Paul's persecution, God has delivered him into the hands of high Roman officials. What a turn of events! God is using the Jews' hatred toward Paul, to give him a chance to testify of the glory of God before highly-placed Romans! So think of that next time you are feeling opposition by others about preaching God's name: God might just be using their hatred of the Word for great things beyond our understanding.)