[LindaR]

Originally Posted by Luke

If New Wine is unfermented grape juice, then what does Acts 2:13 mean?

Other mocking said "these men are full of new wine"

And then Peter says that the men are not drunken, as they suppose....

If new wine is not alcoholic, what does acts 2:13 mean?

The Greek word for "new wine" in Acts 2:13 is gleukos. This is the only place in the NT where you will find this word. Here is the definition from Strongs:

gleukos glyoo'-kos
akin to 1099; sweet wine, i.e. (properly) must (fresh juice), but used of the more saccharine (and therefore highly inebriating) fermented wine:--new wine.

Apparently these mockers were trying to debunk the miracle of tongues and slander the apostles because of the many languages they were using to preach the Gospel. The apostles were certainly NOT "drunk in the Spirit"...they were "filled with the Spirit". Nowhere in Scriptures does it say to be "drunk in the Spirit"...but we are to be "filled with the Spirit":

And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; (Ephesians 5:18)