Pentecost and the Jerusalem Church
About this date: Shown beside the Resurrection; the precise modern calendar year is not independently fixed.
Acts describes the Spirit's descent, apostolic preaching, baptism, and the first Jerusalem community.
People
- Peter
- the apostles
Scripture
- Acts 2:1–47 — Acts describes the Spirit's coming, Peter's address, baptisms, and the Jerusalem community's shared life.
Primary sources
Acts reports:
Acts summarizes the Jerusalem believers as devoted to apostolic teaching and communal life, immediately adding breaking bread and prayers.
They devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to the communal life, to the breaking of the bread and to the prayers.
Passage context and translation
Acts summarizes the Jerusalem community after the Pentecost proclamation with four linked practices: apostolic teaching, communal life, breaking bread, and prayers.
After the excerpt
Awe came upon everyone, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles.