How could the apostles be accused of getting drunk on new wine?

Scripture: Acts 2:13
How could the apostles be accused of getting drunk on new wine? You can't get drunk on grape juice. The passage indicates they were 'mocking' the disciples.
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Caller: Yeah everyone I have another one, something you've touched on many times before with Old wine and new wine. Acts 2:13, referring to...

Pastor Doug:...on the day of Pentecost when they thought they were drunk?

Caller: Yeah it says these men are full of new wine and I didn't think you could get drunk on new wine or on grape juice.

Pastor Doug:Well you can't. They were saying this here facetiously. Now Acts 2, which verse were you looking at, 13?

Caller: 13.

Pastor Doug:Yeah. They're teasing. You know a lot of people used to say, 'Well I'm not drunk. I was drinking new wine.' And so here they're saying it mockingly: 'They're full of new wine.' See what I'm getting at?

Caller: Ok, I get it. Yeah.

Pastor Doug:So there's sarcasm in there. You can't really take that as a literal statement but mockingly.

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