p. 24 | The Fifty Days to Pentecost

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 16, 1863

The Fifty Days to Pentecost

QUESTION. Is there any proof that the pentecost was fifty days and no more from the passover?

ANSWER. Lev. xxiii, 15-21 describes the feast of pentecost, and it is there said that fifty days shall be counted from the day that the sheaf of the wave offering was waved before the Lord; and this wave offering was offered on the morrow after the Sabbath, not the weekly sabbath, but the ceremonial sabbath which was observed on the first-day of the feast of unleavened bread. Verse 7. See also verse 11, which refers to the same thing, verses 4-14 inclusive, being a description of the events of the passover week. At the time of the crucifixion of the Saviour, the passover Sabbath and the weekly Sabbath came together, which is supposed to furnish an explanation of the language in John xix, 31, that "that sabbath day was an high day." From the day of the wave offering seven sabbaths (meaning weeks) were to be complete, which would be forty-nine days, and the day following was the feast of weeks, or the pentecost. The word pentecost signifies the fiftieth.