Pentecost also called Whit Sunday , Whitsunday or Whitsun is a Christian holiday which takes place on the 49th day 50th day when inclusive counting is used after Easter Day. Many Christian denominations provide a special liturgy for this holy celebration. Since its date depends on the date of Easter , Pentecost is a " moveable feast ".
The translators of the Septuagint also used the word in two other senses: to signify the year of Jubilee Leviticus [ 11 ] [ 8 ] an event which occurs every 50th year, and in several passages of chronology as an ordinal number.
In Judaism , Shavuot is a harvest festival that is celebrated seven weeks and one day after the first day of Passover in Deuteronomy , or seven weeks and one day after the Sabbath according to Leviticus Sometime during the Hellenistic period, the ancient harvest festival also became a day of renewing the Noahic covenant , described in Genesis , which is established between God and "all flesh that is upon the earth". By this time, some Jews were already living in the Diaspora.
According to Acts —11 there were Jews from "every nation under heaven" in Jerusalem, possibly visiting the city as pilgrims during Pentecost. The narrative in Acts 2 of the Pentecost includes numerous references to earlier biblical narratives like the Tower of Babel , and the flood and creation narratives from the Book of Genesis.
It also includes references to certain theophanies , with certain emphasis on God's incarnate appearance on biblical Mount Sinai when the Ten Commandments were presented to Moses. Richard C. The events of Acts Chapter 2 are set against the backdrop of the celebration of Pentecost in Jerusalem. There are several major features to the Pentecost narrative presented in the second chapter of the Acts of the Apostles.
