The Lord’s Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. On the fifteenth day of that month the Lord’s Feast of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. On the first day () hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. Leviticus 23:5-8 (NIV)…’From the day after the Sabbath (), count off seven full weeks. Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an…offering of first fruits to the Lord – Leviticus 23:15-21 (NIV)
14 Nisan Passover Lamb is Slain –
15 Nisan Un-Leavened Bread (yeast) –
First day is Sunday (First Fruits) Jesus raised –
Pentecost 50 days later on Sunday: Feast of
John 20:19-22
On the day that Jesus was raised from the dead:
The Disciples the Holy Spirit and are now
And when He had said this, He breathed on them and said to them,
“Receive (lambano) the Holy Spirit” – John 20:22 (NASB)
Acts 1:3-8
Approximately after the Disciples
the Holy Spirit Jesus says they will be the Holy Spirit (vv.3-5)
(Jesus) John baptized with water, but you will be baptized (baptizo) with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”
– Acts 1:5 (NASB)
Baptize: baptizo – to immerse, submerge, to make whelmed (i.e., fully wet) (OTESD)
(v.8)
…but you will receive power (dunamis) when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses (martus) both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.”
– Acts 1:8 (NASB95)
The purpose of the power is to be (martus) (v.8)
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,
faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. – Galatians 5:22-23 (NIV)
Acts 2
Pentecost will be after Jesus is raised
…offering of first fruits to the Lord – Leviticus 23:15-21 (NIV)
The Three Responses to the Holy Spirit (vv.12-13)
And they all continued in amazement and great perplexity, saying to one another, “What does this mean?” But others were mocking and saying, “They are full of sweet wine.” – Acts 2:12-13 (NASB95)
Peter’s Sermon is from Joel 2:28-32
Joel showed what’s going to be different (vs.16-21)
(v.17) “all mankind” –
(v.17) The “last days” –
(v.17) “Sons and Daughters“ –
Men (aner) of Judea (v.14) Men-aner, a man, husband, sir (OTESD)
(v.17) “Visions” “Dreams” a life filled
And now that I am old and gray, don’t forsake me. Give me time to tell this new generation (and their children too) about all your mighty miracles.
– Psalms 71:18 (TLB)
(vv.19-20) Will continue till Jesus
(v.21) Method of salvation will
Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing. – Acts 2:33 (ESV)
The Result
So then, those who had received his word were baptized; and that day there were added about three thousand souls. – Acts 2:41 (NASB)