But others mocked them and said, “They are drunk on new wine!”
We have here an account of the public notice that was taken of this extraordinary gift with which the disciples were all on a sudden endued. Observe, I. The great concourse of people that there was now at Jerusalem, it should seem more than was usual at the feast of pentecost.
Commenting on Acts 2:5-13
Others mocking, said,.... These were the native inhabitants of Jerusalem, the common people; and it may be also the Scribes and Pharisees, who did not understand the languages in which the apostles spake, and therefore derided them both by words and gestures: these men are full of new wine; the Syriac, version adds, "and are drunk"; a very foolish and impertinent cavil this; there was...
Verse 13. Others mocking said. The word rendered "mocking" means to cavil, to deride. It occurs in the New Testament but in one other place: , "And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked." This was an effect that was not confined to the day of Pentecost.