In the New Testament, which book describes the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost?
Answer
Acts of the Apostles
In the New Testament, the Book of Acts describes the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.
Acts 2 says the disciples were together in Jerusalem when a sound like a violent wind filled the house. Tongues resembling fire appeared and rested on them, and they began speaking in other languages. Jewish pilgrims from many regions heard them declaring God’s deeds in their own languages.
Peter then addressed the crowd and interpreted the event using the prophet Joel. He proclaimed Jesus as raised and exalted, and Acts says about three thousand people were added that day. Pentecost therefore marks both the Spirit’s dramatic arrival and a major public expansion of the early Christian movement.
The festival was connected with Shavuot, a Jewish harvest festival held fifty days after Passover. The Christian account is not the same as the later liturgical customs associated with Pentecost in every tradition, but Acts supplies the foundational narrative.