Pentecost; 5 June 2022; Day of Pentecost C (RCL); Acts 2:1-21; Psalm 104:25-35, 37; Romans 8:14-17; John 14:8-17, 25-27.
Luke has loaded these verses in Acts with a wealth of intertextual references. There is the reference to the creation story (God’s breath blowing over the primal chaos), the pillar of fire in the wilderness, and of course the quasi-reversal of Babel (the story of Babel is one of the optional readings on this day).
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