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Acts 2:15
For these men are not overcome with wine, as it seems to you, for it is only the third hour of the day;
Acts 2:15 · Bible in Basic English
Acts 2:15 in other translations
For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.
These men are not drunk, as you suppose. It is only the third hour of the day!
For these aren’t drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only the third hour of the day.
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In context
12 And they were all surprised and in doubt saying to one another, What is the reason of this?
13 But others, making sport of them, said, They are full of new wine.
14 But Peter, getting up, with the eleven, said in a loud voice, O men of Judaea, and all you who are living in Jerusalem, take note of this and give ear to my words.
15 For these men are not overcome with wine, as it seems to you, for it is only the third hour of the day;
16 But this is the thing which was said by the prophet Joel;
17 And it will come about, in the last days, says God, that I will send out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will be prophets, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will have dreams:
18 And on my men-servants and my women-servants I will send my Spirit, and they will be prophets.
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