Acts 2:15 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹⁵ For these men [i.e., the twelve apostles] are not drunk as you suppose, since it is only nine o'clock in the morning. [Note: The use of Jewish time calculations are employed in this verse].

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ For these men are not drunk, as you imagine, for it is [only] the third hour (about 9:00 a.m.) of the day;

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ For these are not drunken, as ye suppose; seeing it is but the third hour of the day;

Common English Bible

¹⁵ These people aren’t drunk, as you suspect; after all, it’s only nine o’clock in the morning!

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ For these men are not inebriated, as you suppose, for it is the third hour of the day.

Acts 2:15 Cross References

Matthew 20:3

He went out about nine o’clock in the morning and saw other unemployed laborers standing [around] in the open shopping market.

John 2:10

and said to him, “Everyone sets out the best wine first, and when people have had plenty to drink, he then sets out the poor quality [wine]. But you have kept the best wine until now.” [Note: See Barnes Notes (pp. 193-195) and The Gospel of John by Butler (pp. 68-70) for evidence suggesting that this was not intoxicating wine].

Acts 2:16

But what you see happening is simply [the fulfillment of] what was predicted by the prophet Joel [2:28ff],