What did Jesus disciples do on the day of Pentecost?
The disciples were gathered in the “upper room”—the same room where Jesus had eaten the Last Supper. This was in Jerusalem at about 9:00 in the morning. While they were there they heard a rush of wind and felt the Spirit of God come upon them. Then they started speaking in tongues (various languages). People from all around heard the tongues and came to see what was going on. Peter stood up and told everyone that Jesus’ death, resurrection, and the sending of the Spirit were all predicted by the prophets, and that God’s message was that everyone should repent of their sins and turn to Him. Three thousand people then stepped forward to receive God and were baptized.
The most important thing the disciples did on Pentecost was teaching and baptizing … just as Jesus had commanded them before he ascended to heaven, some ten days earlier. When they emerged from the Cenacle building, shortly after the descent of the Holy Spirit, the gift of tongues made it possible for them to preach to all the Jews who had assembled in Jerusalem from all over the known world, and the apostles subsequently baptized over 3,000 that very day. But God had the day in mind from ancient times. Here’s the true story of how he brought it all about: The traditional Jewish feast of Pentecost (called Shauvot) celebrated Moses’ receiving the Ten Commandments from God on Mt. Sinai, 50 days after the original Passover, in the spring of the year, (approximately) 1450 BC. The apostles would probably have been waiting and reading from the Book of Exodus, where Moses describes how God wrote the commandments in stone, with his own “finger” and how the finished tablets were subsequently
