What Did the 12 Apostles Do Before the Holy Spirit Cane Again

This is a smashing question. Unfortunately, this is a question for which there is no definitive respond.  The Bible simply does non give u.s. a clear answer.  But while the Bible does not tell us where the disciples were when the Holy Spirit was given, information technology does tell united states the day . The Holy Spirit was given on the solar day of Pentecost (Acts 2:1).  Pentecost is the English proper noun for the Jewish Feast of Shavuot (read What is Shavuot?  Is there a prophetic aspect to it?).

Shavuot is the first-fruits celebration of the wheat harvest. This festival is also chosen the Feast of Weeks, since it is seven weeks , plus ane twenty-four hours, after Passover.  The English give-and-take "Pentecost"  derives from the Greek pentekoste, with the root "pente" meaning l.  This is an appropriate name since the seven weeks plus one twenty-four hour period equals 50 days.

Acts 1 tells us that forty days after His resurrection, Jesus ascended from the Mt. of Olives to Heaven, later which the disciples returned to Jerusalem and gathered together in an upper room.

Acts 1:12-14Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey. And when they had entered, they went up into the upper room where they were staying: Peter, James, John, and Andrew; Philip and Thomas; Bartholomew and Matthew; James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot; and Judas the son of James. These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women and Mary the female parent of Jesus, and with His brothers.

While this tells that they were gathered in an upper room, it must be remembered that this was only twoscore days since the mean solar day of resurrection (Acts 1:3).  The Holy Spirit was given on the Feast of Shavuot, which was fifty days later on Passover.

The Twenty-four hour period of Pentecost

Moving forward to the day of Pentecost, we are told:

Acts 2:one  And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in i identify.

All nosotros are told is that "they were all with one accordance in i identify."  In what identify?

Christian tradition says that it was the upper room—the same identify where Jesus celebrated the Passover with His disciples (Mark 14:xv; Luke 22:12).   While it is thought by many that this is the same place to which the disciples went later on Jesus ascended to Heaven (Acts 1:13), it should exist noted that the Greek terms Luke used in his Gospel and in Acts are different.  As a well-educated human being, Luke was very precise in his writings and so we must consider that these two places might take been different.  Plus, there is nil that supports the "one place" mentioned in Acts two:1 as being the upper room of Acts 1:xiii. Tradition might make that merits but the tradition that has been handed down does not date dorsum to the fourth dimension of Jesus' death.  The claim does not even predate the Byzantine catamenia (5th century A.D.).

Additionally, Luke'south account in Acts suggests the disciples might accept been gathered elsewhere.  Chapter two begins with, "When the Day of Pentecost had fully come…"  This moves the time frame forwards and could also indicate a different location than that spoken of in chapter one.

Location, Location, Location

And so where were the disciples and the gathered followers of Jesus on Pentecost?  The Bible mentions the "house where they were sitting" (Acts two:2), and because of that many accept assumed this meant the upper room.  Yet, there is another interpretation of what that "house" might be.

Rather than the upper room of a business firm, it is thought that this might accept been a reference to THE House, the House of the Lord.  In ancient Jewish sources (the Mishna and the Talmud), the Temple Mount is referred to as "the mountain of the business firm" and throughout the Old Testament, we find "the house of the Lord" used to describe the Tabernacle, Solomon's Temple, the Second Temple, and the hereafter Millennial Temple.

Luke's utilize of the phrase in Acts 2:two might have been a direct reference to the first century Temple that stood on the Temple Mountain.  Luke previously recorded, in his Gospel, that after Jesus' ascension, the disciples remained in Jerusalem and "were continually in the temple blessing God" (Luke 24:52,53).  This indicates that the Temple was still the middle of worship and considering that the time of Shavuot/Pentecost centered on Temple worship, it seems likely to explicate the large crowd that was gathered t o exist obedient to God'southward prescribed commands (Deut xvi:16).

This would account for the number of people present, who heard the testimony of the disciples, and responded in faith:

Acts 2:41  Then they that gladly received his discussion were baptized: and the aforementioned day in that location were added unto them about three m souls.

Josephus, a commencement-century Jewish historian, confirms that the population of Jerusalem swelled at Pentecost as Jewish pilgrims came from all over the countryside (State of war 1:253; cf. 2 Maccabees 12:31,32).   And Luke confirms this in Acts 2:ix-eleven when he told from where they had come, "Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Arab republic of egypt, and in the parts of Great socialist people's libyan arab jamahiriya most Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians…"

Additionally, when Peter called the people "to apologize and exist baptized in the proper name of Jesus" (Acts 2:38), both his sermon and the events of the twenty-four hour period suggest a public location, rather than a private upper room.  And it'due south likely that the only place in Jerusalem where such big crowds could accept gathered on the Mean solar day of Pentecost would have been the Temple Mount.

The Birth of the Church and the Receiving of  the Holy Spirit

With 3,000 people responding to Peter's call to "apologize and be baptized" (Acts 2:41), it seems plausible that the location was the Temple.  At that place were ritual immersion pools around the southern and southwestern portions of the Temple Mount that serviced the pilgrims entering the temple (cf. Luke 2:22; Acts 21:24) and these would have been large enough to conform the pilgrims assembled there during Shavuot/Pentecost.

The Temple or the Upper Room?

The answer is, we just don't know.  While it might seem that the Temple would take been the most feasible place to arrange such a large gathering, we must accept that the Bible does not tell the location where the Holy Spirit was given.  Why?  Because the location is not what is of import.

With certain confirmation, nosotros are told that God DID give His Spirit to all who trusted in His Son and the Bible also tells us that since that day He has connected to requite His Spirit to all who come up to Jesus is faith.  This fulfilled Jesus' hope:

John 14:sixteen-17  "And I will pray the Begetter, and He will give you some other Helper, that He may abide with you forever; the Spirit of truth, whom the earth cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; just you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you."

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