About this time King Herod Agrippa, (as the Syriac paraphrase correctly called him) laid hands on them who belonged to…

About this time King Herod Agrippa, (as the Syriac paraphrase correctly called him) laid hands on them who belonged to the church (ACT 12:1) because they opposed the institutions and rites of their country of which Agrippa was a most religious observer. {Josephus, Antiq., 1. 19. c.ult. <c. 6. 1:521>}