A.D. SCRIPTURE HISTORY. EVENTS IN PALESTINE. EVENTS IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE. A.D. 27 27-30 80 37 40 44 45 50 1 51 Christ's Baptism. His three years' ministry. His Crucifixion, Resurrection (April), and Ascension (May). Descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. Birthday of the Church (May). Acts, ch. 2. Martyrdom of Stephen. Acts, ch. 7. Peter and John in Samaria. Acts, ch. 8. Conversion of Saul. Acts, ch. 9, comp. 22 and 26, and Gal. 1:16; 1 Cor. 15: 8. Saul's escape from Damascus, and first visit to Jerusalem (after his conversion). Gal. 1:18. Admission of Cornelius into the Church. Acts, chs, 10 and 11. Persecution of the Church in Jerusalem. James the Elder, the son of Zebedee, beheaded. Peter imprisoned delivered. and He 1 Those who deny a second imprisonment of Paul assign these Epistles to the period of Paul's residence in Ephesus, A.D. 54-57, and 2 Timothy to A.D. 63 or 64. CHAPTER IV. ST. PETER AND THE CONVERSION OF THE JEWS. § 24. The Miracle of Pentecost and the Birthday of the Christian Church. A.D. 30. Καὶ ἐπλήσθησαν πάντες πνεύματος ἁγίου, καὶ ἤρξαντο λαλεῖν ἑτέραις γλώσσαις, καθὼς τὸ πνεῦμα ἐδίδου ἀποφθέγγεσθαι αὐτοῖς.—Acts 2 : 4. "The first Pentecost which the disciples celebrated after the ascension of our Saviour, is, next to the appearance of the Son of God on earth, the most significant event. It is the starting-point of the apostolic church and of that new spiritual life in humanity which proceeded from Him, and which since has been spreading and working, and will continue to work until the whole humanity is transformed into the image of Christ."-NEANDER (Geschichte der Pflanzung und Leitung der christlichen Kirche durch die Apostel., I. 3, 4). Literature. I. SOURCES: Acts 2:1-47. Comp. 1 Cor. chs. 12 and 14. See Commentaries on the Acts by OLSHAUSEN, DE WETTE, MEYER, LECHLER, HACKETT, ALEXANDER, GLOAG, ALFORD, WORDSWORTH, PLUMPTRE, JACOBSON, HOWSON and SPENCE, etc., and on the Corinthians by BILLROTH, KLING, STANLEY, HEINRICI, etc. II. Special treatises on the Pentecostal Miracle and the Gift of Tongues (glossolalia) by HERDER (Die Gabe der Sprachen, Riga, 1794) HASE (in Winer's "Zeitschrift für wissenschaftl. Theol." 1827), BLEEK in 66 Studien und Kritiken" for 1829 and 1830), BAUR in the "Tübinger Zeitschrift für Theol." for 1830 and 1831, and in the "Studien und Krit." 1838), SCHNECKENBURGER (in his Beiträge zur Einleitung in das N. T. 1832), BÄUMLEIN (1834), DAV. SCHULZ (1836), ZINSLER (1847), ZELLER (Acts of the Apostles, I. 171, of the E. translation by J. Dare), Вöнм (Irvingite, Reden mit Zungen und Weissagen, Berlin, 1848), ROSSTEUSCHER (Irvingite, Gabe der Sprachen im apost. Zeitalter, Marburg, 1855), AD. HILGENFELD (Glossolalie, Leipz. 1850), MAIER (Glossolalie des apost. Zeitalters, 1855), WIESELER (in |