Acts 26:22
Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come: Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come:
The verse belongs to Paul's defense before the leading men of Caesarea, including King Agrippa, where he was given opportunity to present the reasons for his faith. He continued witnessing and preaching up to that day because he had obtained God's help, which sustained and preserved him. That sustaining help kept his witness alive through opposition and trial to the very day of his defense.
His witnessing to both small and great meant speaking to people of every rank, from ordinary people to rulers, kings, governors, princes, and nobles. He said nothing beyond what Moses and the prophets had said would come, so his testimony about Jesus was not a new teaching or a departure from Scripture but was consistent with it and in agreement with it. The promised message he proclaimed centered on the Messiah: Christ would suffer, rise first from the dead, and bring light to Israel and the Gentiles. His proclamation included Christ's suffering and resurrection and the hope of the gospel.
His testimony about Jesus and his own conversion was heard by kings and governors, so his imprisonment and trials became means of spreading the knowledge of Christ, whom he preached with the power of the Holy Spirit. The prophecy was fulfilled in Jesus, whose life and work fulfilled the Old Testament Scriptures: the Messiah appeared as a man, endured the cross to redeem the lost, and rose and ascended to heaven victorious over death. As foretold, Jesus came humbly as the promised Messiah and Saviour of the world, crucified and risen. His preaching traced the prophecies of Scripture to Christ's first advent and showed that they were fulfilled in Jesus' suffering, death, and resurrection.
Together with the next verse, the verse presents Christ as the anointed, crucified, risen Saviour witnessed to by the prophets and testified of by believers, through whose name people receive forgiveness of sins. His gospel was thus brought before princes and nobles, just as the Lutheran confession was later proclaimed before the rulers of the empire. The gospel once heard before princes and nobles in Paul's day was again proclaimed before the rulers of the empire, even though preaching it from the pulpit had been forbidden.