Acts 2:41 tells us that 3000 persons were added to the believers in Jerusalem following Peter’s sermon on the Day of Pentecost!  Verse 42 adds:      And they were continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. We know from verse 47 that many […]

Acts 2:22-24 is the heart of the first mass evangelistic sermon after Jesus’ ascension.  Peter was put forward as spokesman by the other apostles to answer the crowd of Jewish worshipers in Jerusalem for the feast of Pentecost, who were amazed by the unusual display of the Spirit of God that enabled the apostles to […]

In Acts 2:1-4 we read that a violent noise from heaven accompanied the sudden arrival of the Holy Spirit to the apostles who were gathered in one place in Jerusalem on the Jewish feast of Pentecost.  Verse 5 tells us that in lieu of the feast, there were many devout Jews in Jerusalem from every […]

In Acts 2:1-2 we read: And when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.  And suddenly there came from heaven a noise like a violent, rushing wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. There was a noise, a sound.  Luke says: 1) it came suddenly; […]