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A:Acts of the Apostles says that on the day of Pentecost, everyone in the upper room was filled with the Holy Spirit coming down on them as tongues of fire. They then spoke in tongues as the spirit gave them the utterance.

The story of the Christian Pentecost seems to have been inspired by the Jewish Pentecost, or Shavuot, celebrated from the second century BCE onwards in memory of the giving of the Law on Mount Sinai. It takes place fifty days after Passover, just as the Christian Pentecost takes place fifty days after Easter. Numbers 11:25 tells us that on that occasion, the spirit of God came down on the seventy elders and they began to prophesy in ecstasy.

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