Acts 26:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

And now — Acts 26:6-8 are in a kind of parenthesis, and show that what the Pharisees rightly taught concerning the resurrection, Paul likewise asserted at this day. Acts 26:9 connected with Acts 26:5. For Pharisaism impelled him to persecute. I stand in judgment for the hope of the promise — Of the resurrection. So it was in effect. For unless Christ had risen, there could have been no resurrection of the dead. And it was chiefly for testifying the resurrection of Christ, that the Jews still persecuted him.