Emphasis Preaching Journal

There are three festivals that all male Jews living within twenty miles of Jerusalem were required to attend, the Feast of Weeks being one. This festival celebrates the giving of the law at Mount Sinai. It was also called Pentecost because it fell on the fiftieth day, a week of weeks, after the Jewish Passover. Christians, with a sense of Jewish heritage, would also be present at this celebration. This day Peter preached the first sermon of the church. The first-century church had four preaching styles.