The Gospel we read in church on this mid-feast of Pentecost tells of a time that Jesus, during his earthly ministry, stood up in the temple and taught. The icon of the feast, on the other hand, depicts a twelve-year-old Jesus instructing the Jewish doctors in the temple many years earlier. But Mid-Pentecost is less a celebration of ancient events and more a reminder that, even now, Christ is present in our Orthodox temples, and he is always willing to provide those who come to him in faith with the water of knowledge, life, wisdom, and immortality.
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