{"id":4944,"date":"2019-06-09T04:31:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T09:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/?p=4944"},"modified":"2019-06-09T04:31:11","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T09:31:11","slug":"pentecost-sunday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/4944","title":{"rendered":"Pentecost Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/pictures\/Jean_II_Restout_-_PentecosteLarge.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/pictures\/Jean_II_Restout_-_PentecosteSmall.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Jean II Restout (1692-1768) (Wikimedia Commons)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>ACTS 2:1-11<\/b><\/p>\n<p>When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled,<br \/>\nthey were all in one place together.<br \/>\nAnd suddenly there came from the sky<br \/>\na noise like a strong driving wind,<br \/>\nand it filled the entire house in which they were.<br \/>\nThen there appeared to them tongues as of fire,<br \/>\nwhich parted and came to rest on each one of them.<br \/>\nAnd they were all filled with the Holy Spirit<br \/>\nand began to speak in different tongues,<br \/>\nas the Spirit enabled them to proclaim.<\/p>\n<p>Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven<br \/>\nstaying in Jerusalem.<br \/>\nAt this sound, they gathered in a large crowd,<br \/>\nbut they were confused<br \/>\nbecause each one heard them speaking in his own language.<br \/>\nThey were astounded, and in amazement they asked,<br \/>\n\u201cAre not all these people who are speaking Galileans?<br \/>\nThen how does each of us hear them in his native language?<br \/>\nWe are Parthians, Medes, and Elamites,<br \/>\ninhabitants of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia,<br \/>\nPontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia,<br \/>\nEgypt and the districts of Libya near Cyrene,<br \/>\nas well as travelers from Rome,<br \/>\nboth Jews and converts to Judaism, Cretans and Arabs,<br \/>\nyet we hear them speaking in our own tongues<br \/>\nof the mighty acts of God.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean II Restout (1692-1768) (Wikimedia Commons) ACTS 2:1-11 When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled, they were all in one place together. And suddenly there came from the sky a noise like a strong driving wind, and it filled the entire house in which they were. Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/4944\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pentecost Sunday&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4944"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4949,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944\/revisions\/4949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}