“Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.”
Some, however, made fun of them and said, 'They have had too much wine' — the mockers (chleuzao, jeer/scoff) assume intoxication rather than divine presence, attempting a naturalistic explanation. Wine (gleukos, sweet wine, may mean fermented or fresh) is used mockingly but also sets up Peter's response: he will show that the Spirit, not alcohol, is the source of prophetic utterance. The divide between belief and mockery is sharp; the Spirit creates this division.
Church Fathers on Acts 2:13
Because that every man heard them speak in his own language. And they were amazed, it says, and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galileans? Acts 2:7-13 They immediately turned their eyes towards the Apostles. And how (it follows) hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in…
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