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  2. Pentecost - Wikipedia

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    Biblical commentator Richard C. H. Lenski has noted that the use of the term "Pentecost" in Acts is a reference to the Jewish festival. He writes that a well-defined, distinct Christian celebration did not exist until later years, when Christians kept the name of "Pentecost" but began to calculate the date of the feast based on Easter rather ...

  3. What Is Pentecost and Why Do Some Christians Celebrate It? - AOL

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    Pentecost Meaning. In Greek, the word Pentecost literally means "fiftieth." According to Faith Giant: "The Pentecost has a variety of names in the Bible: Shavuot, The Feast of Weeks, the First ...

  4. Pentecostalism - Wikipedia

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    Commonly termed "speaking in tongues", this vocal phenomenon is believed by Pentecostals to include an endless variety of languages. According to Pentecostal theology, the language spoken (1) may be an unlearned human language, such as the Bible claims happened on the Day of Pentecost, or (2) it might be of heavenly origin. In the first case ...

  5. Three Pilgrimage Festivals - Wikipedia

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    The Three Pilgrimage Festivals or Three Pilgrim Festivals, sometimes known in English by their Hebrew name Shalosh Regalim (Hebrew: שלוש רגלים, romanized: šāloš rəgālīm, or חַגִּים, ḥaggīm), are three major festivals in Judaism—two in spring; Passover, 49 days later Shavuot (literally 'weeks', or Pentecost, from the Greek); and in autumn Sukkot ('tabernacles', 'tents ...

  6. When Is Pentecost in 2024, and How Long Does This ... - AOL

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    Related: 35 Insightful Bible Verses for Pentecost to Pay Tribute to the Power of the Holy Spirit When Is Pentecost in 2024? Pentecost Sunday takes place on May 19 in 2024—seven weeks after Easter.

  7. 35 Insightful Bible Verses for Pentecost to Pay Tribute to ...

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    Scriptures about the gift of the Holy Spirit and the beginning of the church.

  8. Oneness Pentecostalism - Wikipedia

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    Oneness Pentecostal theology maintains the literal definition of baptism as being completely immersed in water. They believe that other modes either have no biblical basis or are based upon inexact Old Testament rituals and that their mode is the only one described in the New Testament.

  9. Christian observances of Jewish holidays - Wikipedia

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    Pentecost celebrates the birth of the Church, when thousands of Jews were in Jerusalem to celebrate Shavuot, and heard Peter and the disciples speaking in their own language. However, Shavuot is one of the Three Pilgrimage Festivals laid out for the Torah observant Jews, which was the reason for the huge gathering of Jewish believers in ...