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And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place Acts 2:1 YLT 50 days later: Pentecost Please discard your New Testament notions of Pentecost for a moment and allow me to narrate what has just taken place for the Apostles in first century Jerusalem which…
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Choosing Matthias And they drew lots for them, and the lot fell to Matthias; and he was added to the eleven apostles. Acts 1:26 NASB20 Matthias fills a position of an Apostle from off the bench (so to speak) as a substitute for Judas who had betrayed Christ and then took his own life. This new Twelfth Apostle gets little mention as…
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The Holy Spirit Promised While he was with them, he commanded them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait for the Father’s promise. Acts 1:4a CSB But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come on you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the…
