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What really happened at Pentecost. In Acts 2:1-21 the apostle Peter related the events at Pentecost to a prophesy in Joel 2, and we find a description of events on that day and the words which He spoke to those present: When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.
- Shavuot in Early Christian Communities: Paul’s Letter to The Corinthians
- The Holy Spirit on Pentecost: Acts of The Apostles
- The Development of The Pentecost Festival in The Church
- Baptism on Pentecost, Shavuot and Conversion
- Confirmation: A Pentecost Practice That Moved to Shavuot
- Confirmation in The Liberal Jewish Movements
- The Mutual Influence of Shavuot and Pentecost
Towards the end of the Second Temple period, Paul mentions Shavuot in his First Letter to the Corinthians.Paul, a Jew (see esp. Acts 23:6, “I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees”) who became an early apostle of Jesus, dedicated his ministry to including non-Jews among the fold of what we now call early Christians, including communities that he helped...
The Acts of the Apostles, a text composed a generation or two after Paul,tells how, on the Shavuot/Pentecost following Jesus’ crucifixion, the Holy Spirit rested upon his disciples: Acts 2:1 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. 2:2 And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and i...
In the early years of Christianity, Pentecost was celebrated as the “seal” (σφραγίς, sphragis) of a 50-day period of (Easter) celebration, first attested in the late second centuryC.E., especially in North Africa and in some parts of the eastern churches. Since Easter is always on a Sunday, Pentecost too is always on a Sunday.Kneeling and fasting, ...
By the fourth century it was common for Christians to administer baptism at Pentecost.The usual term for Pentecost in English, Whitsun (“White Sunday”), probably derives from the fact that the newly-baptized were dressed in white garments. Judaism does not have a comparable practice on Shavuot. Nevertheless, while Shavuot is not a day in which conv...
When baptism was still practiced on Pentecost, they were then anointed with oil as a sign of the gift of the Spirit. Once the practice developed of administering baptism to babies, unable to make the baptismal promises themselves,the anointing on Pentecost came to be a separate ritual, attached to a new rite, “confirmation” of baptism, giving adult...
People who grew up in the Orthodox Jewish world have likely never heard of confirmation as a Jewish practice, but confirmation has been a practice in the Reform (and eventually Conservative) movement for more than two centuries. On the Shavuot of 1811, the Jacobsontempel in Seeson Westphalia, was the first synagogue to hold such a ceremony. Even no...
Thus, we end with the inverse of where we started. In modern times, Pentecost has exerted some influence on Jewish practices for Shavuot, with the introduction of confirmation in the liberal movements. At its core, however, Pentecost derives from the festival of Shavuot, both in how it commemorates a revelation of sorts from each respective religio...
The Many Parallels of Sinai and Pentecost. The Feast of Shavuot (pentēkostē in Greek, Pentecost in English), one of the three great pilgrim Feasts that God told the Jewish people to celebrate (Deuteronomy 16:16), occurs fifty days after the Feast of Pesach (Passover).
May 28, 2020 · The Old Testament Pentecost: Why Did Jesus Pour Out His Spirit on This Particular Day? At the foot of Mt. Sinai, God told Israel how to celebrate Pentecost once they reached the holy land. Generations later, on the day of this Old Testament festival, Christ poured out his Spirit in Jerusalem.
Contained is a chronological summary as taken from Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Corinthians and Acts. All of the things listed below are listed in the order in which they actually occurred, although they are somewhat scattered between the books and letters of the Bible.
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May 20, 2022 · Pentecost is a Jewish Holiday. Pentecost is a prominent holiday on the church calendar today. But did you know that it is a holiday from the Hebrew Scriptures that Jewish people still celebrate? In Hebrew, it is called Shavuot (rhymes with “a blue oat”), meaning “weeks”—and so it is known as the Feast of Weeks.
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Aug 21, 2024 · Pentecost, festival in the Christian church marking the descent of the Holy Spirit on the disciples and the beginning of the church’s global mission. It is celebrated on the Sunday that falls on the 50th day of Easter. Learn more about the significance and history of Pentecost.
