Acts 26:28

Almost. Gr. en oligo, literally, “in a little,” possibly “in a little [time],” but never “almost.” The ambiguity of the Greek text of this verse has resulted in various attempts at translation and exegesis. Commentators, generally, have concluded that Agrippa spoke in irony, as if to make light of Paul’s serious appeal of vs. 26, 27. If so, his irony was a mask to conceal his real feelings (see AA 438). Like Agrippa, those who are under deep conviction oftentimes speak and act in an indifferent way, particularly in the presence of unbelieving associates. Though under deep conviction, Agrippa perhaps wished to give those assembled in the procurator’s audience chamber the impression that he thought Paul naive to think a prisoner could convert a king in so short a time, or with so brief an explanation.