Afterlife 12: Shavuot and Pentecost

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

History, Christianity, Judaism, Bible, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 29 June 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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In the last Afterlife episode, Gil Kidron of A Podcast of Biblical Proportions and I explored the relationship between the Jewish festival of Passover, and Christian Easter.
This time, we explore two more parallels. This time, we explore the Jewish festival of Shavuot or Weeks, and its significance to the Christian celebration of Pentecost.

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0:00.0	G'day. I'm Gary Stevens. Welcome to the afterlife of the History in the Bible podcast.
0:16.7	Afterlife episode 12, Sheparwatt and Pentecost.
0:22.7	Gatay, guys.
0:24.6	In the last Afterlife episode, Gil Kidrone, of a podcast of Biblical Proportions,
0:30.9	and I explored the relationship between the Jewish Festival of Passover and Christian Easter.
0:38.5	This time we explore two more parallels.
0:43.5	In this show, we discuss the Jewish Festival of Shavarwatt, or weeks,
0:49.6	and its significance to the Christian celebration of Pentecost.
0:54.6	Hope you enjoy the discussion.
0:58.3	Hi, Gary, how are you doing?
1:00.9	Hi, girl, I'm doing just tickety-boo now that I've taken all my pills.
1:07.9	So I want to wish you a belated happy Pentecost, Gary.
1:12.5	Happy Chavolot.
1:13.8	Belated.
1:14.5	Thank you.
1:15.1	Thank you.
1:15.6	Belated not only in this conversation, but also in the world, right?
1:19.9	I mean, that was about three weeks ago, wasn't it?
1:22.7	So these are basically twin celebrations, right?
1:27.4	Chavuot, weekss and Pentacom.
1:29.3	Yep.
1:30.3	How do you celebrate Pentecost today, Kerry?
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