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Acts 2:14-15

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

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Acts 2:14-15. But ,Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: for these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.

"It is but nine o’clock in the morning; you cannot really imagine that these men are drunk." We might have thought it hardly worth while to take notice of such an observation; but Peter knew how to conciliate the crowd, and to meet them upon their own ground. He began where they left off, but he went on to say what they little expected to hear:-

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