Acts 2:13

But some of them ◄made fun of/laughed at► those who believed in Jesus. They said, “ These people are talking like this because they are drunk!”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.

In Context

12All those people were amazed, and did not know what to think about what was happening. So they asked one another, “What does this mean?”

14So Peter stood up with the other eleven apostles and spoke loudly to the crowd of people, saying, “ My fellow Jews and you others who are staying in Jerusalem, listen to me, all of you, and I will explain to you what is happening!

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Cross References

Job 32:19My inner being is like [SIM] a ◄wineskin/bag that has <new/fermenting> wine in it►, and it will soon burst.

Isaiah 25:6Here in Jerusalem, the Commander of the armies of angels will prepare a wonderful feast for all the people of the world. It will be a banquet with plenty of good meat and fine well-aged [DOU] wine.

Zechariah 9:17They will be delightful and beautiful. The young men will become strong from eating grain, and the young women will become strong from drinking new wine.

Acts 2:15Some of you think that we(exc) are drunk, but we are not drunk. It is only nine o’clock in the morning, and people here never get drunk this early in the day!

Ephesians 5:18Do not become drunk by drinking alcoholic drinks, since people are unable to control their behavior when they are drunk. Instead, let God’s Spirit control your behavior at all times [MTY].

Matthew Henry on Acts 2:6-14

The Day of Pentecost. 5 And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. 6 Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. 7 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilæans? 8 And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? 9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in… Read the whole commentary →

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