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Pentecost

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Pentecost

Christian festival that celebrates the gift of the Holy Spirit. It is celebrated seven weeks after Easter, and is regarded as the birthday of the Christian church. Traditionally a time of baptism, the name Whit Sunday, or White Sunday, derives from the custom of wearing white while being baptized.

Christians believe that Jesus instructed his disciples to carry on his work and promised to send God's Holy Spirit to inspire, comfort, and guide them. According to the New Testament (Acts 2:1–4), the disciples felt the Holy Spirit's presence during the Jewish feast of Shavuot (known as Pentecost in Greek). A strong wind filled the house where they were gathered, and tongues of fire spread out and touched each one of them.

Pentecost

Another name for the Jewish festival of Shavuot.



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All that they lacked was, the gift that descended upon the chosen disciples at Pentecost, in tongues of flame; symbolising, it would seem, not the power of speech in foreign and unknown languages, but that of addressing the whole human brotherhood in the heart's native language.
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
``and am only to be convicted on my own admission, that I have seen no maiden so beautiful since Pentecost was a twelvemonth.
Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context
If he spoke all the Tongues of the Pentecost you've no business -"
The Man Who Was by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
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