But others in the crowd ridiculed them, saying, “They’re just drunk, that’s all!”
Parallel translations
- WEB Others, mocking, said, “They are filled with new wine.”
- KJV Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.
- BSB But others mocked them and said, “They are drunk on new wine!”
- NKJV Others mocking said, “They are full of new wine.”
- NASB But others were jeering and saying, “They are full of sweet wine!”
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Quick answer
Others mock, claiming the believers are merely drunk. It shows that the same event can provoke either wonder or scornful unbelief.
Overview
The mockers dismiss the miracle as drunkenness, refusing to consider God's work. This response illustrates the hardness that resists clear signs. Their charge prompts Peter to stand and offer the true explanation from Scripture.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- 1 Cor 14:23If therefore the whole assembly is assembled together and all speak with other languages, and unlearned or unbelieving people come in, won’t they say that you are crazy?
- 1 Sam 1:14Eli said to her, “How long will you be drunk? Get rid of your wine!”
- Zech 10:7Ephraim will be like a mighty man, and their heart will rejoice as through wine; yes, their children will see it, and rejoice. Their heart will be glad in Yahweh.
- Acts 2:15For these aren’t drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only the third hour of the day.
- Job 32:19Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; like new wineskins it is ready to burst.
- Isa 25:6In this mountain, Yahweh of Armies will make all peoples a feast of choice meat, a feast of choice wines, of choice meat full of marrow, of well refined choice wines.
- Eph 5:18Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,
- Zech 9:15Yahweh of Armies will defend them; and they will destroy and overcome with sling stones; and they will drink, and roar as through wine; and they will be filled like bowls, like the corners of the altar.
- Zech 9:17For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.
- Song 7:9Your mouth like the best wine, that goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding through the lips of those who are asleep.
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