Act 2:1 when the day of P came, they were all
Act 20:16 was rushing to be on P day, yes
1Co 16:8 but I will be in Ephesus until P
Greek pentêkostê fiftieth. In Judaism, it is the second of the three great annual festivals. It is called the Feast of Weeks, Ex 34, 22; Dt 16, 10-16; 2 Chr 8, 13, because it was celebrated fifty days after Easter, that is, seven weeks later; also called Harvest Festival, Ex 23, 16, because it took place at the end of the harvest; o Feast of the First Fruits, Nm 28, 26, because on this date the first loaves of the new wheat were offered, Lv 23, 10.
In Christian churches, the descent of the Holy Spirit and the foundation of the Church are celebrated there; The feast of Pentecost coincided with the day on which all the apostles were gathered. Suddenly, tongues like fire appeared to them and spread out and landed on each one of them; they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit enabled them to express themselves, Acts 2, 1 ss.
Digital Bible Dictionary, Grupo C Service & Design Ltda., Colombia, 2003
Source: Digital Bible Dictionary
The word derives from the gr expression. the fiftieth day. It was the Jewish festival of weeks or firstfruits (Exo 34:22; Deu 16:9-11; Num 28:26), which was also called the harvest festival (Exo 23:16) or firstfruits day , which fell on the 50th day after the Passover festival.
Leviticus 23 points out the sacred nature of the holiday and details the sacrifices that were to be offered. The events that occurred in Acts 2 transformed the Jewish holiday into a Christian one. Some see a symbolic connection between this ancient celebration and the firstfruits or firstfruits of the Christian dispensation. “White Sunday” is the fiftieth day from Easter Sunday. The name comes from the white clothes customarily worn by those who were baptized during this festival.
Source: Hispanic World Bible Dictionary
(day 50).
1- The Jewish Festival of Pentecost was celebrated 50 days after Easter, See “Festivals”.
2- The Christian Pentecost occurred and is celebrated 50 days after the Christian Easter, the Resurrection of Christ.
Acts 2 describes it: The Holy Spirit descended on the Christians, after they had been in prayer for nine days as Jesus had instructed them in Acts 1:5-8.
What happened to them is that they received the “power” of the Holy Spirit, which Jesus had offered them in Acts 1:8, to be “witnesses of Jesus”. They had such joy that those who saw them thought they were “drunk”: (Acts 2.
13,15), and received the gift of tongues, strange, “as the Spirit gave them to express” (Acts 2:4).
This “Pentecost” is of great importance, because the Church was officially born here, before witnesses of so many languages and nations represented by the attendees: (Acts 2:9-11). The Church, which was born on Calvary, between blood and pain, like all childbirth, manifested itself to the world at Pentecost, when the Apostles who no longer had Jesus with them, realized that they now had him “within them”, by the work of the Holy Spirit, just as the Lord had promised them: (Jua 14:16-18, Jua 16:7-15).
7 Episodes of Pentecost describes the New Testament.
1- The First happened to the Virgin, who begot Jesus, by the work of the Holy Spirit, and this is the essence of each Pentecost! The Virgin then did two things: (Lc.l, Mt.l).
– She went to “serve”, to help her cousin Elizabeth, who was old and six months pregnant: (Luke 1:39).
– The second thing is that he sang the glories of God, in one of the most beautiful songs in the Bible, in the “Magnificat” of Luc 1:46-56.
2- The second episode of Pentecost happened to Elizabeth and John, in Luc 1:40-45: When Elizabeth saw Mary, she was filled with the Holy Spirit, she sang the most endearing praise to Jesus, blessing her mother, the most blessed : Of all the women, and Juan jumped for joy in his entrails, being filled with the Spirit, as he had predicted in Lc.l.
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3- The Third was “the Great Pentecost” of Acts 2, which we have already described. The Virgin was also involved in it, because when it happened the 12 were praying, with Mary, and the other 120 brothers of the Lord: (Acts 1:13-15).
4- The fourth was “the one from Samaria”, from Acts 8: Philip had been preaching, but Peter and John came, laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit: (Acts 8:17). and the Bible doesn’t tell us what happened, but he must have done something so great that a certain Simon wanted to buy Peter the “power to lay on hands”, in 8: 18-19; And Simon knew and had seen the miracles that Philip had been doing, in 8:6! But he didn’t want to “buy” him about doing miracles, but he did want to “buy” you, but he did want to lay on hands with the coming of the Spirit.
5- The fifth is “that of St. Paul”: Saul persecuted the Christians, to kill them! He was not a Christian, far from it! and the horse threw you!, going blind, 9:3-9. Then Ananias came and laid his hands on him, and Paul received his sight and was filled with the Spirit. and, later, he was baptized: (9: 17-18). Here there were no “tongues”, but there was a great joy, and he saw! In each episode of Pentecost there is not only something great inside, but an external manifestation that those present can see.
6- The sixth episode of Pentecost is the “Pentecost of the Gentiles”, which happened to Cornelius and his family when Peter was preaching to them: they were filled with the Spirit and spoke in tongues and glorified God. and then Peter baptized them, even though they were Gentiles, not Jews! Because he could not deny Baptism to some who had received the same Spirit as him at Pentecost: (10:44-48). They were the first “Gentiles” to be baptized.
7- The seventh was that of the Ephesians, to some Christians who had not even heard of the Holy Spirit. Paul laid his hands on them, and the 12: Men received the Spirit, spoke in tongues and prophesied: (Acts 19).
See “Holy Spirit”, “Baptism”
Christian Bible Dictionary
Dr. J. Dominguez
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Source: Christian Bible Dictionary
One of the three main †¢festivities of Israel, along with Passover and Tabernacles ( †¢Feasts). P. is also called “Harvest Feast” (Exo 23:16), “Feast of Weeks” (Exo 34:22) and “First Fruits Day” (Num 28:26). It was celebrated at the end of the barley harvest, when the wheat harvest began. “And you shall count from the day after the Sabbath…seven weeks…. you shall count fifty days; then you shall offer the new grain to the Lord† (Lev 23:15-16). The people of the small communities gathered in a city central to all and from there they went in procession to Jerusalem, carrying their first fruits. The Levites received them with songs in the †¢temple.
The origin of this festival was clearly related to agriculture. The Israelites brought to God the testimony of the blessing they had received with their harvest. But in NT times, tradition had already identified this holiday as a commemoration of the day Israel received the law, the †¢Torah. This, according to the Pharisees, had occurred fifty days after leaving Egypt. This was thought because in Deu 16:9-12 there is an ordinance on the “solemn festival of weeks”, and it ends by saying: “And remember that you were a servant in Egypt; therefore you shall keep and fulfill these statutes† .
the men of Israel were required to attend the “holy convocation.” Couldn’t work. They brought, on behalf of the entire congregation, “two loaves for a wave offering…. seven one-year-old lambs … a calf … and two rams† as “a sweet-smelling offering by fire to Jehovah.” Furthermore, “a male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old for a peace offering sacrifice” (Lev 23:17-22). With the different offerings presented as first fruits, the participants celebrated a †¢banquet (†œAnd you will rejoice before the Lord your God, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who dwells in your cities, and the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow who are in your midst, in the place that Jehovah your God has chosen to put his name there.
From the number of visitors to Jerusalem on P.’s day, according to Acts 2:9-11, it is evident that this was the preferred holiday of the Jews of the dispersion. The apostle Paul showed great interest in being in Jerusalem during one of these festivals (Acts 20:16; 1Co 16:8). The Lord Jesus made different appearances to his disciples † œduring forty days… speaking to them about the kingdom of God † (Acts 1: 3). After his ascension, the believers † œcontinued with one accord in prayer and supplication †, possibly about ten more days, until † œthe day of Pentecost came †, when the Holy Spirit descended upon them and filled them all (Acts 2: 1 -6).
Source: Christian Bible Dictionary
Festive commemoration of the coming of the Holy Spirit, promised by Jesus, and which is biblically related to the Jewish festival of “Pentecost”, although both parties have differences in content due to the similarity of the term (penta, fifty and ekostos, day)
The Jews celebrated the “feast of weeks” on the fiftieth day after Passover. It was called like that; but above all it was described as a festival of shops or harvests. It was a day of thanksgiving for the harvests. (Ex. 34.22 and Num. 28.26) received from God. It was the second festival in importance of the calendar (Tob. 2.1; 2 Mac. 12.31). It was presented as a festival ordered by God himself (Ex. 24. 23; Deut. 16. 11) and of an agrarian nature. But, after the Captivity, it became a commemorative day for the Law of Sinai and was charged with greater theological significance. Jesus lived it in this sense and it continued to be celebrated in Jewish circles for centuries.
However, among Christians, the descent of the Holy Spirit was soon commemorated with this feast fifty days after the Resurrection of Christ and the Judaic meaning was abandoned. In the New Testament only four times this name is mentioned (Acts 2.1 and 20.16; 1 Cor. 16.6; Hebr. 12.22)
It was probably celebrated in the Church from apostolic times. However, it only appears as a Christian holiday from the second century onwards. Tertullian (De Baut. 19) speaks of it and the writing of the “Apostolic Constitutions (V. 12. 17) also describes it. Then the Church solemnized her with a beautiful liturgy, as was normal in the case of the Third Person of the Most Holy. Trinity. Solemn hymns were raised, such as the “Veni Creator” or the “Veni Sancte Spiritus”, which were the most significant prayers of the Holy Spirit. (See Holy Spirit 6)
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