Agrippa II was born in 27 or 28 in Rome was the son of the Jewish prince Herod Agrippa and his wife Cyprus. When his father had to flee from his creditors, he visited Palestine for the first time, when he was five. When his father returned to Rome in 36, Julius Marcus and his mother had to stay behind. The elder Agrippa's career had not been very successful, because he had lost his fortune, had fled, had found a job in Galilee and had lost this job.
