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Acts 2:15

Acts 2:15
For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

For these are not drunken,.... Meaning not only the eleven apostles, but the rest of the hundred and twenty, on whom also the Spirit was poured forth, and who were endowed with his extraordinary…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

For these are not drunken ... - The word these here includes Peter himself, as well as the others. The charge doubtless extended to all. The third hour of the day - The Jews divided their day into…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

But the third hour of the day - That is, about nine o'clock in the morning, previously to which the Jews scarcely ever ate or drank, for that hour was the hour of prayer. This custom appears to have…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Acts 2:14-36

We have here the first-fruits of the Spirit in the sermon which Peter preached immediately, directed, not to those of other nations in a strange language (we are not told what answer he gave to those…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

are not drunken Wine was drunk by the Jews with flesh only, and, founding the custom on Exo 16:8, they ate bread in the morning, and flesh in the evening, and so took no wine till late in the day. So…

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