2:14
Peter stands up to address the crowd. Luke says “Peter stood up with the Eleven”, it is possibly significant that he refers to “the Eleven” rather than the “twelve”, maybe indicating that the earlier selection of a replacement for Judas had been something of a waste of time. Note that it is a mere seven weeks or so since Peter was denying Jesus before a servant girl,and that previously he understood very little and misunderstood much. Now he is speaking to the crowds and explaining what was really going on.
2:15,16
Peter starts by dealing with the ludicrous accusation of the sceptics that they were all drunk. Peter points out that it was only nine o’clock in the morning, so it was hardly possible for them all to be drunk! Far from being drunk, what was happening was a fulfilment of the words spoken by the prophet Joel.
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