Charles Ellicott Commentary Acts 2:15

"For these are not drunken, as ye suppose; seeing it is [but] the third hour of the day." — Acts 2:15 (ASV)

Seeing it is but the third hour of the day.—The appeal is made to the common standard of right feeling. Drunkenness belonged to the night (1 Thessalonians 5:7). It was a mark of extreme baseness for men to rise up early in the morning that they may follow strong drink (Isaiah 5:11). Were the disciples likely to be drunk at 9 a.m., and that on the morning of the Day of Pentecost, after a night spent in devotion, and when all decent Jews were fasting?