Acts 2:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

For these; this proves that the other apostles spake as well as Peter, and were vindicated by him. Are not drunken; he mildly and solidly confutes their calumny. The third hour of the day, which answers to our nine o clock in the morning, and was the ordinary time for their morning sacrifice and prayer, before which time they did not eat or drink any thing; nay, it is thought on festival days it was usual with them not to eat or drink until the sixth hour, that is, noon time, that they might be more intent upon and fit for the service of the day. How little soever (to our shame) such an argument would be of proof now, it was in their more sober times very conclusive.