What is the Feast of Pentecost and when is it counted?
The Feast of Pentecost is a Jewish feast day, one of the seven feasts listed in Leviticus 23. It is counted as the 50th day after Passover. On that day, Jews from all over the then-known world gathered in the temple area to celebrate it.
The context explains that Pentecost was a Jewish feast day, one of the seven feasts listed in Leviticus 23: the Feast of Passover, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Firstfruits, and the Feast of Pentecost, which was the 50th day after Passover. On this day of Pentecost, a huge crowd of Jews from all over the then-known world were out on the pavements in the temple area. Peter, through the power of the Holy Spirit, was speaking, and everyone heard in their own language. The context stresses that this was a Jewish feast day, a Jewish crowd, a Jewish speaker, and a Jewish message, with no Gentile ground mentioned.