Herodias got her opportunity when Herod gave a banquet on his birthday. He invited his high officials, his military commanders, and the most important leaders of Galilee.
You’ve spent enough time in the past doing what ungodly people choose to do. You lived a wild life and wanted the wrong things. You got drunk and went to wild parties. You worshiped statues of gods, which is something the Lord hates.
In the fifteenth year that Tiberius Caesar ruled—when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod was the ruler of Galilee, his brother Philip was the ruler of Iturea and Traconitis, Lysanias was ruler of Abilene—
The next day Agrippa and Bernice made a grand entrance into the courtroom. The highest-ranking military officers and the most important leaders of the city all came in with them. Festus gave a command and Paul was brought in.