Herod Agrippa I ruled over Judea from 41-44 AD as a puppet king of the Roman Emperor. He was the grandson of Herod the Great, the king who sought to kill Jesus when he was a baby (Matthew 2:7–19).1 Carrying a dual Jewish and Roman identity, he played the role of intercessor on behalf of the Jews with the Roman authorities and, on the domestic level, gave hope to some of his Jewish subjects for the restoration of an independent Jewish kingdom.
1 About that time Herod the king laid violent hands on some who belonged to the church.