1 Corinthians 16:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

He altered this resolution afterward, for, Acts 20:16, he hasted, if it were possible, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost. Pentecost was a Jewish feast, and not named here as a feast then celebrated by Christians, but as a known period of time; for the Jews computing time from their festivals, Christians who lived amongst them, and had some of them been converted from their religion, computed also their time from the Jewish festivals.

1 Corinthians 16:8

8 But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.