Pentecost: Parading with Solidarity
Pentecost is parading with solidarity. You may find that a strange phrase, but it is.
On the first day of Pentecost, according to the Bible - at the beginning of the book Acts of the Apostles - thousands of people were gathered together in a crowded Jerusalem. They were parading and strolling to and from the temple, the central point of Jewish life at that time.
Suddenly, the masses heard a group of men speak of a man who had been killed on a cross less than two weeks ago. According to rumors, he would have risen from the dead. And that sowed a lot of divisions among the Jewish people.
But now they all heard these men speak in their own language. Division was transformed into unity and solidarity. Quite a special sensation, if you ask me. Pentecost changes the world!
