Especially because thou art expert (μαλιστα γνωστην οντα σε). Or like the margin, "because thou art especially expert," according …

To be expert. To be skilled or well acquainted.

In all customs. Rites, institutions, laws, etc. Everything pertaining to th…

Expert in all customs and questions.—The former word is used in its half-technical sense, as including all the precepts of the Law of Mose…

Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself: I think mys…

This was just the kind of situation Paul had longed for during two bleak years in prison—namely, a knowledgeable judge and a not inherently antagon…

Especially, because I know you to be expert in all customs ,
&c.] Rites and ceremonies of the Jews, whether enjoined…

Christianity teaches us to give a reason of the hope that is in us, and also to give honour to whom honour is due, without flattery or fear of man.…