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Mockery as a Defense
Commentators explain that mocking God's work is a frequent reaction from those who don't understand it. The accusation of drunkenness was an attempt to dismiss the supernatural with a simple, derogatory label, a tactic used to avoid acknowledging spiritual reality. As one scholar notes, this is a common way for people to handle what they cannot explain.
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Albert Barnes
On Acts 2:13
18th Century
Theologian
Others mocking said. The word rendered "mocking" means to cavil, to deride. It occurs in the New Testament in only one other plac…
AT Robertson
On Acts 2:13
Mocking (διαχλευαζοντες). Old verb, but only here in the N.T., though the simple verb (without δια) in 17:32. Χλευη means a joke.<…
Charles Ellicott
On Acts 2:13
19th Century
Bishop
These men are full of new wine.—Literally, of sweet drink—the word “wine” itself not being the specific Greek te…
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Charles Spurgeon
On Acts 2:1–13
19th Century
Preacher
And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a r…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Acts 2:13
The miraculous does not inevitably and uniformly convince. There must also be the preparation of the heart and the proclamation of the message if m…
John Gill
On Acts 2:13
17th Century
Pastor
Others mocking, said
These were the native inhabitants of Jerusalem, the common people; and it may be also the Scrib…
Matthew Henry
On Acts 2:5–13
17th Century
Minister
The difference in languages which arose at Babel has greatly hindered the spread of knowledge and religion. The instruments whom the Lord first emp…