# Acts 26:17

> I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them

— Acts 26:17, Berean Standard Bible

## When

- c. AD 57-59 (counted from the text)
- Date source: Acts 24:27 gives two years in Caesarea and marks the change from Felix to Festus, which Josephus (Antiquities XX.8) puts in AD 59.

## Who ruled

- **Herod Agrippa II**, king of Judea, AD 50-93, named in the text · Source: Josephus, Jewish War II; Antiquities XX
- **Porcius Festus**, procurator of Judea, AD 59-62, named in the text · Source: Josephus, Antiquities XX.8-9
- **Nero**, emperor of Rome, AD 54-68 · Source: Tacitus, Annals XIII-XVI; Suetonius, Nero
- **Antonius Felix**, procurator of Judea, AD 52-59 · Source: Josephus, Antiquities XX.7-8; Tacitus, Annals XII.54

## See also

- Acts 9:15 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/9/15
- 1 Timothy 2:7 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/1-timothy/2/7
- Jeremiah 1:19 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/jeremiah/1/19
- Romans 11:13 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/romans/11/13
- Jeremiah 1:8 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/jeremiah/1/8
- Acts 28:28 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/28/28
- Galatians 2:9 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/galatians/2/9
- Ephesians 3:7-8 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ephesians/3/7

Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0.

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/26/17
- Whole chapter: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/26
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).