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What does Acts 26:6 mean?

"Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,"

— Acts 26:6 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently.

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“Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem;

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having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

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Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,

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which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa!

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Why is it judged incredible with you, if God does raise the dead?

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“I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

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