χλευάζω means to mock or scoff at someone, to treat with contempt through ridicule or jeering. Luke uses it twice in Acts to describe negative responses to apostolic preaching. In Acts 2:13, when the disciples speak in tongues at Pentecost, some in the crowd 'mocked them (ἐχλεύαζον)' saying 'They are filled with new wine'—dismissing the miracle as drunkenness. In Acts 17:32, when Paul preaches the resurrection to the Athenian philosophers, some 'mocked (ἐχλεύαζον)'—sophisticated Greeks finding the idea of bodily resurrection laughable, intellectually beneath them. Both contexts show intellectual or spiritual pride rejecting divine truth through mockery.