What were thee events that happened from the last day of Passover until Pentecost?

Answer 1

(It's "Shavuot" or "The Feast of Weeks," not "pentecost." The latter is not a name that holds any meaning for Jewish people.)

To answer the question, you only need to open the book of Exodus (ch.15-20) and read.

1) On the last day of Passover, God split the Reed Sea, and the Israelites sang praise to Him.

2) The Israelites journeyed three days, finding no water.

3) God miraculously sweetened the bitter water at Marah on the third day.

4) The Israelites came to Elim, where were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees.

5) On the thirtieth day after the Exodus, in the wilderness of Sin, God provided quail temporarily, and began providing manna for the entire forty years.

6) The Israelites camped at Rephidim and asked for water. God gave them water after commanding Moses to strike a rock.

7) The battle against the Amalekites.

8) Jethro came from Midian to join the Israelites.

9) At Jethro's advice, Moses chose officers/judges of the tens, fifties, hundreds and thousands.

10) The Israelites arrive at the foot of Mount Sinai in the third month after the Exodus and prepare for the Revelation of God.

11) God gives the Ten Commandments to the Israelites.

Answer 2

In the synoptic gospels, the day of the Passover was the day of the Last Supper, that preceded the crucifixion of Jesus. The first twenty four hours are most clearly explained in Mark's Gospel, which was also the original New Testament gospel. Markbreaks the last twenty four hours in the life of Jesus into eight segments each of exactly three hours:

• The story begins "when it was evening" (Mark 14:17), or when the sun went down: approximately 6 pm.
• Mark knew that the duration of the Passover meal was three hours and that it concluded with the singing of a hymn, so at the end of his segment he says, "And when they had sung a hymn they went out to the Mount of Olives". It was about 9 p.m.
• Mark then has Jesus and the disciples go to the Garden of Gethsemane, where his disciples, Peter, James and John, were not able to remain awake. "Could you not watch one hour?" Jesus asked. The process was repeated two more times. The disciples could not watch one, two or three hours. It was now midnight.
• The act of betrayal, the darkest deed in human history, came next, occurring at the stroke of midnight.
• Jesus was led away for a trial before the Sanhedrin court and judged on the basis of his messianic claim to be worthy of death. It was 3:00 a.m. John's Gospel dissents on this point, the author realising that the Sanhedrin would never have sat during the hours of darkness to try Jesus, so had him taken separately before Annas and then Caiaphas.
• The watch of the night between 3 am and 6 am was called cockcrow. Peter's threefold denial of Jesus, once each hour until the cock crowed, marked the end of that phase of the night. That makes it 6 am.
• "As soon as it was morning", which would be 6 am, Jesus was led by the chief priests, scribes and elders to Pontius Pilate for judgement.
• Mark told his readers once again that this drama has been shaped liturgically, saying, " It was the third hour when they crucified him," that is, 9 o'clock.
• When "the sixth hour had come" (12 noon), darkness covered the whole earth, reflecting the betrayal at 12 midnight.
• After three hours of darkness, Jesus said "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" At 3 pm, Jesus gave up the ghost. At this moment, the curtain of the Temple was torn from top to bottom. Matthew's Gospel also talks about an earthquake and of the dead bodies rising up and walking into Jerusalem, where they were seen by many, but the other gospel authors appear unaware of this.
• Joseph of Arimathea asked Pontius Pilate for permission to bury Jesus. He was buried in Joseph's tomb in the final period from 3 to 6 pm, before the sun went down.
• That brings us to 6 pm on Friday evening, reflecting the beginning of the passion on 6 pm on Thursday evening.

Women went to the tomb very early on Sunday morning. From this point on, the gospels differ quite widely in their presentation of what happens, so it is better to report Luke's Gospel, as Acts of the Apostles contains the report of the Pentecost and was written by the same author.

The women who came with Jesus from Galilee and certain others (Luke 24:1) went to the tomb. Finding the stone already moved aside they went inside and found that Jesus was not there. Two men in shining garments told the women that Jesus was risen. They returned from the sepulchre and told the rest, but the disciples did not believe.

Peter ran to the tomb and looked for himself, to see the tomb was empty, except for the linen cloths in which Jesus had been wrapped. Later, Jesus appeared to two of them on the road to Emmaeus, where he had a meal with them and then vanished. The same evening he met the eleven disciples at a meal in an upper room in Jerusalem and then took them out towards Bethany, where he made his parting statements, including that they should remain in Jerusalem until they received power from on high, and was taken up bodily into heaven.

Acts of the Apostles, by the same author but written a little later, extends the time that the risen Jesus spent before he was taken up into heaven from one day to forty days. During this time he showed himself to many and provided many proofs. He was with all the disciples when he told them that they should remain in Jerusalem until they received the promise of the Father, and was then taken up bodily into heaven.

Peter, acting as leader of the disciples, arranged a vote for a new apostle to replace Judas, and Matthias was chosen.

When the day of Pentecost was come, the disciples were together, when they heard a rushing noise and saw tongues of fire that sat on each of them., and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit.

Answer 3

Correction: the second day of Passover, not the last.

In the weeks between Passover and Shavuot, there was a plague that killed the disciples of Rabbi Akiva. On the day of Lag Ba'Omer (the 33rd day after the second day of Passover), the dying ceased.

Answer 4

In the weeks between Passover and Shavuot, there was a plague that killed the disciples of Rabbi Akiva. On the day of Lag Ba'Omer, the dying ceased.