Comes from the Greek word for “fifty”, and refers to the Jewish harvest festival also called the “feast of weeks”, because it was held seven weeks (a week of weeks) and a day after Passover. Many Christian traditions view that the Christian church began at the first Pentecost celebration following the crucifixion of ChristDerived from a Greek term meaning anointed and is equivalent to the word “messiah” from Hebrew roots. The anointing references the act of installi... more when there was a great outpouring of the Holy Spirit on those in attendance.
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