Charles Ellicott Commentary Acts 26:6

"And now I stand [here] to be judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers;" — Acts 26:6 (ASV)

For the hope of the promise made of God. The words include the whole expectation of a divine kingdom of which the Christ was to be the head, as well as the specific belief in a resurrection of the dead.

To our fathers.—Some of the better manuscripts have simply, “to the fathers.” The Received text is, perhaps, more in harmony with St. Paul’s usual manner of identifying himself with those to whom he speaks. He will claim even Agrippa as of the stock of Abraham. (Compare in this connection the anecdote regarding Agrippa I given in the Note on Acts 12:21.)