Why is Pentecost important? We know from its name that it occurred fifty days after the Passover, also known as the Feast of Weeks which was one of the major annual feasts (Deuteronomy 16:16). This meant that on the day of Pentecost we read of in Acts 2, there was an international audience gathered in Jerusalem that witnessed the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and allowed Peter’s sermon to incite a worldwide harvest for Christianity.

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