Then Agrippa said unto Festus, I would also hear the man myself. To morrow, said he, thou shalt hear him.
Ver. 22. I would also hear the man] More for his mind's sake, and to see what he would say for himself, than out of any desire to learn from him. So Herod desired to see Christ, as a man would see some magician act his feats, and make him sport.