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Acts 2:13

Acts 2:13
Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Others mocking, said,.... These were the native inhabitants of Jerusalem, the common people; and it may be also the Scribes and Pharisees, who did not understand the languages in which the apostles…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Others, mocking, said - The word rendered “mocking” means “to cavil, to deride.” It occurs in the New Testament in only one other place: Act 17:32, “And when they heard of the resurrection of the…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

These men are full of new wine - Rather sweet wine, for γλευκους, cannot mean the mustum, or new wine, as there could be none in Judea so early as pentecost. The Γλευκος, gleucus, seems to have been a…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Acts 2:5-13

We have here an account of the public notice that was taken of this extraordinary gift with which the disciples were all on a sudden endued. Observe,

I. The great concourse of people that there was…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Others mocking, &c. Better, But others mocking said; They are full of new wine. There is no Greek for the words these men, as is shewn by the italics of the A. V.

The sight presented to the…