{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-2857","native_reference":{"book_number":510,"chapter_from":20,"chapter_to":20,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":16,"verse_to":16},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Bede</b>: For he was hastening if it were possible to be present at the day of Pentecost in Jerusalem. Indeed, it was commanded by the law that all Jews should gather in Jerusalem three times a year, that is, at the time of Passover, Pentecost, and the Feast of Tabernacles, but the Apostle, breaking the ties of the world, hastens to observe the fiftieth day, that is, the day of remission and the Holy Spirit.<br/><i>— Commentary on Acts</i></p><p><b>Bede</b>: For he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to observe the day of Pentecost in Jerusalem. In Greek, it is written as the Day of Pentecost, that is, the fiftieth day. Therefore note that the time of Passover and Pentecost were also celebrated at the time of the apostles. But whether they were celebrated among the Jews who adhered to the law on the day the lamb was sacrificed in Egypt and the day the law was given on Mount Sinai, or on the day of the Lord's resurrection and the coming of the Holy Spirit, let those who know say. Nonetheless, it is known that the apostle Peter celebrated Passover in Rome on the Lord's Day of the resurrection of Christ; it is known that the evangelist Mark, sent by him, taught this in Egypt.<br/><i>— Retractions on Acts</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be in Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.\" Why this haste? Not for the sake of the feast, but of the multitude. At the same time, by this he conciliated the Jews, as being one that did honor the feasts, wishing to gain even his adversaries: at the same time also he delivers the word. Accordingly, see what great gain accrued, from all being present.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 43</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: Wherefore does the writer say where they came, and where they went to? To show in the first place that he was making the voyage more leisurely-and this upon human grounds-and sailing past some: also for the same reason he tells where he made a stay, and what parts he sailed past; namely, \"that he might not have to spend the time in Asia.\" Since had he come there, he could not have sailed by; he did not like to pain those who would have begged him to remain. \"For he hasted,\" it says, \"if it were possible for him to keep the day of Pentecost in Jerusalem:\" and this was not possible if he stayed.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 43</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: Observe, how he is also moved like other men. For therefore it is that all this is done, that we may not fancy that he was above human nature: therefore you see him desiring something, and hasting, and in many instances not obtaining his object: for those great and holy men were partakers of the same nature with us; it was in the will and purpose that they differed, and so it was that also they attracted upon themselves the great grace they did.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 43</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: But that the interests of the people of Ephesus might not be neglected on that account, he managed for this in a different way.<br/><i>— Homily on Acts 43</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"853c16951a51690b99adc8b8552e99a97af766b41f155a2a3906bd0ce8387a8b","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":2857,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"49d9df37089003c64367d62104ced3c86e74afc92c2f142cf5897c5f4abb181e","translator":null,"work":null}