After more time passed with Paul still under arrest, King Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea to salute Festus.  Agrippa was the son of Herod who had James killed and the grandson of Herod the Great who ruled when Jesus was born.  Bernice was his sister, with whom he was allegedly having an affair.  Matthew Henry says that such was the nature of those in power and to not think that the former days were better.  Again, corruption and corrupt people in government is nothing new. We cannot live in the "good old days", which were probably not as good as we remember them.  When we remember how ideal the world was in the 1950's, we seem to overlook things like segregation and the spread of Communism.  We forget that many in the church not only overlooked segregation, but endorced it.  We will never live in a perfect world, but can only be ambassadors of Christ in the world in which we live.  "The only good Communist is a dead Communist" was never what God taught His people.  Today, neither is "Nuke them 'til they glow and let God sort them out."  The let God sort them out seems to give His endorsement, but He said "Love your enemies."  We see no evidence that Paul ever prayed for the destruction of his enemies.  Stephen, as he was being stoned, did not say "Get them God."  Stephen asked for God to forgive them and Paul continued to witness to, and I am sure, pray for those who persecuted him.  When we see a statement like love your enemies, we want to interpret what that means instead of accepting it by faith.  Many people who claim to take the Bible literally, word for word, immediately begin to interpret the meaning of passages that do not agree with what they believe.  We cannot pick and choose what part of God's teachings we want to believe.  Christ  is the example, and if we are to be His followers, we must live by His example.