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Pentacost is a Christian name for the Jewish holiday of Shavu'ot, which is a summer grain harvest festival that also commemorates the giving of the Torah at Mt. Sinai.

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Why did they have the Pentecost?

Pentecost was a holy-day for the Jewish People. It was also known as "the Feast of Weeks", also "the Feast of Harvest" and the "Day of First fruits" It is mentioned several times in the O.T. It is important to Christians also as the Holy Spirit filled the disciples on the Day of Pentecost. This was a new ministry for the Holy Spirit.


Why did Pentecost occur?

Pentecost was the birth of the church. Also, Jesus used Pentecost to give Believers the Holy Spirit.


What is Whitsuntide?

Witsuntide is the week beginning on Whitsunday. Whitsunday, which is also known as Pentecost is 50 days, or app. 7 weeks after Easter.


Does Penticost Have A Religion?

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What does 50 mean in the bible?

Year of jubilee; also Pentecost


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Easter is also referred to this from Easter Sunday to Pentecost?

Many Christians including Catholics celebrate the Easter liturgical season for 50 days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost.


How can Christians celebrate shavu'ot?

In Christianity, the holiday known as Shavuot is called 'Pentecost.' While Jews celebrate God Giving them the Torah on Shavuot, Christians celebrate God Sending them the Holy Spirit on Pentecost.


What is celebrated 40 days after Easter?

Whitsun(tide) (also called Pentecost).


What is the second Pentecost?

A:Various modern religious leaders have spoken of a "second Pentecost" to draw attention to a reform or movement they feel warrants attention. However, there ware always, already, two Pentecosts. Acts of the Apostles says that on the day of Pentecost, everyone that was in the upper room, was filled with the Holy Spirit coming down on them as tongues of fire. They spoke in tongues as the spirit gave them the utterance. This was the Christian Pentecost.The Jews also celebrated a Pentecost from the second century BCE onwards, and hence in Jesus' day, in memory of the giving of the Law on Mount Sinai. Also known as Shavuot, 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.There are enough parallels to the earlier account to raise doubts about the historicity of the Christian Pentecost, which really was the second Pentecost.


When is whitsun in 2011?

Whitsun, also known as Pentecost, is observed on the seventh Sunday after Easter. In 2011, Easter Sunday fell on April 24, making Whitsun occur on June 12, 2011.


What other name do Christians give to Pentecost?

Pentecost is also the Greek name for Jewish Feast of Weeks (Shavuot), falling on the 50th day of Passover