Acts 2:1
On the day when the Jews were celebrating the Pentecost festival, the believers were all together in one place in Jerusalem.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 23:16The second one is the Festival of Harvesting. During that festival you must offer to me the first parts/harvest of your crops that grow from the seeds that you planted. The third one is the Festival of Living in Temporary Shelters. That will be after you finish harvesting your grain and grapes and fruit.
Leviticus 23:15“Seven weeks after the priest offers that grain to me,
Deuteronomy 16:9“ Each year, from the day that you start to harvest your grain, count seven weeks.
2 Chronicles 30:12Also in Judah God motivated the people to be united in wanting to do what Yahweh wanted them to do, which is what the king and his officials had told them to do in the message that they sent.
Jeremiah 32:39I will cause them to have one way of thinking [IDM] and behaving, in order that they may revere me, for their good and for the good of their descendants.
Acts 1:13When they entered the city, they went upstairs to the room in the house where they were staying. Those who were there included Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip, Thomas, Bartholomew, Matthew, another James the son of Alphaeus, Simon who belonged to the group that wanted to expel the Romans, and Judas the son of another man named James.
Matthew Henry on Acts 2:1
Between the promise of the Messiah (even the latest of those promises) and his coming many ages intervened; but between the promise of the Spirit and his coming there were but a few days; and during those days the apostles, though they had received orders to preach the gospel to every creature, and to begin at Jerusalem, yet lay perfectly wind-bound, incognito—concealed, and not offering to preach. But in this chapter the north wind and the south wind awake, and then they awake, and we have them in the pulpit… Read the whole commentary →