Old English Pentecosten "Christian festival on seventh Sunday after Easter," from Late Latin pentecoste, from Greek pentekoste (hemera) "fiftieth (day)," fem. of pentekostos, from pentekonta "fifty," from pente "five" (see five). The Hellenic name for the Old Testament Feast of Weeks, a Jewish harvest festival observed on 50th day of the Omer (see Lev. xxiii:16).
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1. Pentecost: Feast of the Harvest, first fruits. New life!
五旬節(jié): 收割節(jié), 初熟的果子. 新的生命!
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2. Called Pentecost, Feast of Weeks or Shavuot also called Whitsunday.
叫作圣靈降靈節(jié)是禁食的星期或者五旬節(jié)也叫作圣靈降靈節(jié).
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3. Pentecostals take their name from the biblical feast of the Pentecost.
五旬節(jié)派是以圣經(jīng)上的五旬節(jié)而得名的.
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4. He dared not boast after Pentecost. A powerful witness before God.
五旬節(jié)后不敢再自夸, 勇為主作證大有力!
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5. We do not know where Philip went after Pentecost.