Germany’s spring public holidays include Good Friday, Easter, Ascension, and Pentecost, which celebrate events in Christian tradition. Pentecost, also called Whitsun or Trinity Sunday, is believed to mark the Holy Spirit’s descent on Jesus’ followers 50 days after Easter, giving the name from a Greek word meaning “fiftieth.” The holiday’s roots connect to Judaism through Shavuot, the Feast of Weeks held seven weeks and one day after Passover and associated with the revelation of the Ten Commandments to Moses. After Jesus’ death, resurrection, and ascension, followers gathered in Jerusalem and felt renewed strength when the Holy Spirit came upon them. The experience enabled understanding across different languages and inspired them to speak to others.
"Those abovementioned followers of Christ had gathered in Jerusalem to observe the Feast of Weeks (Shavuot in Hebrew), a harvest festival held seven weeks and one day after the first day of Passover, also celebrated as the day that the Ten Commandments were revealed to Moses."
"“The disciples were a bit lost after the death and resurrection of Jesus and then after the Ascension. They didn't know what to do next. They'd had such a good time with Jesus, who was no longer within reach, and they had withdrawn to a house in Jerusalem. And then the Holy Spirit came upon them, this power of God that () simply came over them and they felt a kind of vitality, a kind of strength that they had lost.”"
"“It was actually a miracle of understanding,” Hofmann tells DW. “They all spoke their own language, yet they could still understand each other.”"
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