Pentecost

The holiday is also called Whit Sunday Whitsunday or. The pentecost was the jewish harvest-home and the people were especially exhorted to rejoice before jehovah with their families their servants the levite within their gates the stranger the fatherless and the widow in the place chosen by god for his name as they brought a free-will offering of their hand to jehovah their god.

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. Pentecost is also a Jewish holiday which the Jews use to celebrate the end of Passover. The Christian festival of Pentecost falls on the 50th day after the resurrection of Jesus. The word Pentecost is Greek and it means 50th day Fifty days after Easter Sunday we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and their followers and the beginning of their Earthly ministry to make disciples of all nations.

Because Easter is a moveable feast without a fixed date and Pentecost depends. Pentecost was the celebration of the beginning of the early wheat harvest which meant that Pentecost always fell sometime during the middle of the month of May or sometimes in early June. Its traditionally celebrated as Whitsun.

It commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and other followers of Jesus Christ while they were in Jerusalem celebrating the Feast of Weeks as described in the Acts of the Apostles Acts 2131. There were several festivals celebrations or. 1 day agoPentecost always occurs 50 days after the death and resurrection of Jesus and 10 days after his ascension into heaven.

Its the 50th day after the Sabbath of Passover week and in Judaism is called the Feast of Weeks Leviticus 2316. The Christian holiday of Pentecost is celebrated on the 50th day the seventh Sunday from Easter Sunday. On that day God gave the Torah to Moses on Mount Sinai.

God commanded his people to observe the Festival. This had never happened before in history. Most importantly it marks the time when the Holy Spirit permanently indwells us.

The word Pentecost comes from a Greek word meaning fiftieth. The Jewish Festival of Pentecost called Shavuot meaning weeks in Hebrew falls on the fiftieth day after the original Passover. Pentecost also called Whitsunday Pentecost from Greek pentecostē 50th day major festival in the Christian church celebrated on the Sunday that falls on the 50th day of Easter.

It is the Greek name for the Festival of Weeks. In these Old Testament passages we find the historical and Biblical origins of what we now call Pentecost. Pentecost is from the Greek word Pentekostos which means fifty.

Pentecost has multiple meanings. This was a significant feast in the Jewish calendar that celebrated God giving them the Ten Commandments 50 days after the Exodus from Egypt.

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