The Feast of Pentecost
19 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
14 sections
- A Holy Convocation
- A Time of Holy Rejoicing
- All Males to Attend
- Called The: Day of Pentecost
- Called The: Day of the First Fruits
- Called The: Feast of Harvest
- Called The: Feast of Weeks
- Held Fiftieth Day After offering First Sheaf of Barley
- Observed by the Church
- Sacrifices At
- The First Fruits of Bread Presented At
- The Holy Spirit Given to Apostles At
- The Law Given from Mount Sinai Upon
- To be Perpetually Observed
A Holy Convocation
- Leviticus 23:21 On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly, and you must not do any regular work. This is to be a permanent statute wherever you live for the generations to come.
- Numbers 28:26 On the day of firstfruits, when you present an offering of new grain to the LORD during the Feast of Weeks, you are to hold a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.
A Time of Holy Rejoicing
- Deuteronomy 16:11–12 and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name — you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, …
All Males to Attend
- Exodus 23:16–17 You are also to keep the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the produce from what you sow in the field. And keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field. …
- Deuteronomy 16:16 Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed.
Called The: Day of Pentecost
- Acts 2:1 When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.
Called The: Day of the First Fruits
- Numbers 28:26 On the day of firstfruits, when you present an offering of new grain to the LORD during the Feast of Weeks, you are to hold a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.
Called The: Feast of Harvest
- Exodus 23:16 You are also to keep the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the produce from what you sow in the field. And keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field.
Called The: Feast of Weeks
- Exodus 34:22 And you are to celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.
- Deuteronomy 16:10 And you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with a freewill offering that you give in proportion to how the LORD your God has blessed you,
Held Fiftieth Day After offering First Sheaf of Barley
- Leviticus 23:15–16 From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, you are to count off seven full weeks. …
- Deuteronomy 16:9 You are to count off seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain.
Observed by the Church
- Acts 20:16 Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus to avoid spending time in the province of Asia, because he was in a hurry to reach Jerusalem, if possible, by the day of Pentecost.
- 1 Corinthians 16:8 But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost,
Sacrifices At
- Leviticus 23:18–19 Along with the bread you are to present seven unblemished male lambs a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the LORD, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings — a food offering, …
- Numbers 28:27–31 Present a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old as a pleasing aroma to the LORD, …
The First Fruits of Bread Presented At
- Leviticus 23:17 Bring two loaves of bread from your dwellings as a wave offering, each made from two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with leaven, as the firstfruits to the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 16:10 And you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with a freewill offering that you give in proportion to how the LORD your God has blessed you,
The Holy Spirit Given to Apostles At
- Acts 2:1–3 When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. …
The Law Given from Mount Sinai Upon
- Exodus 12:6 You must keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight.
- Exodus 12:12 On that night I will pass through the land of Egypt and strike down every firstborn male, both man and beast, and I will execute judgment against all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD.
- Exodus 19:1 In the third month, on the same day of the month that the Israelites had left the land of Egypt, they came to the Wilderness of Sinai.
- Exodus 19:11 and be prepared by the third day, for on the third day the LORD will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.
To be Perpetually Observed
- Leviticus 23:21 On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly, and you must not do any regular work. This is to be a permanent statute wherever you live for the generations to come.
Related topics
PentecostHarvest of Wheat at Pentecost, in PalestineVision of the People of the Tongues of Fire at PentecostWeeks
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.