<p>26:3 <i>Especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews. Therefore, I beg that you hear me patiently</i>- &quot;Hear me patiently&quot; is an allusion to the LXX of Prov. 25:15: &quot;By long patience is a prince persuaded&quot;. Paul had the spiritual ambition to even try to convert Agrippa. We too need that ambition, never writing people off as unreachable by our witness. Agrippa &quot;the prince&quot; is perhaps framed in terms of this verse when he is recorded as replying using the same word as in Prov. 25:15: &quot;You almost <i>persuade</i> me to be a Christian&quot; (:28).</p>