Apostles preaching to Jews and Gentiles or, The Acts explained to children, by the author of ...

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1874 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: II. THE PROMISED GIFT. Acts, ii. 1-15, 22-24, 32-38. Ten days had now passed away since Jesus had gone up to heaven. How long did Jesus spend on earth after He had risen ? Forty days. Ten more days make fifty days. It was now fifty days since Jesus rose. There was a feast of the Jews at that time, called ' the feast of first- fruits, ' when the Jews brought their first sheaves of wheat to present to the Lord. Thousands of Jews came up from all countries to keep this feast. One name for the feast was Pentecost."" It was now just fifty days after the Passover. It was the first day of the week. On that day the believers in Jesus met together in the large room to pray. 'Pente'means'fifty.' It was early in the morning -- about eight o'clock. Suddenly a great sound was heard. It was like the sound of a very strong, high wind. This great sound filled the place where the believers were sitting, and shook the whole house. There came also what looked like fire -- divided into many parts, each part appearing to be a tongue of fire: and these came and sat on each of the believers, -- on the women as well as on the men. At the same time they all were able to speak many strange languages which they had never learned. Jesus had once told His apostles to preach the Gospel to every creature, and they may have wondered how they should be able to teach strange nations; but now they were made able to speak to every one in his own language. The great noise which had shaken the house had been heard in all Jerusalem, and people came running towards the place. They could not all get intothe house, but the people in...