What Is Pentecost in the Bible?
Feast
The day the Holy Spirit came down on the apostles and Mary, fifty days after Easter.
A detail
- For the Jewish people: the harvest feast, fifty days after Passover. It is also called the feast of Weeks.
Where it appears in the Bible
Acts 2:1-4; Tobit 2:1
What the Bible says
Acts 2:1-4
1And when the days of the Pentecost were accomplished, they were all together in one place: 2And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a mighty wind coming, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3And there appeared to them parted tongues as it were of fire, and it sat upon every one of them: 4And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they began to speak with divers tongues, according as the Holy Ghost gave them to speak.
Tobit 2:1
But after this, when there was a festival of the Lord, and a good dinner was prepared in Tobias’s house,
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: Catechism 731-732; Acts 2:1-4