The first harvest in the year is the barley harvest. Think about the book of Ruth, where Boaz takes a gentile bride...
The Purpose of Pentecost: and the New Missionary Age of the Church
Pentecost: the Holy Spirit Comes
Pentecost on Mount Athos (where earthly time is one and the same as the eternal today of heaven)
Vigil of the Pentecost and Whitsunday
The Gifts of the Holy Spirit
The Twelve Fruits of the Holy Spirit [Devotional]
Novena to the Holy Ghost [Holy Spirit]
The Holy Spirit: Pentecost
The Church's First Novena
Litany of the Holy Spirit for the election of a holy pope.
not Shebuot i, but Shavuot
They would have stayed up all night studying the Holy Word of G-d i.e.the Torah. They were required to be in Jerusalem to celebrate Shavuot, Shavuot is seven weeks and one day hence fifty days The Feast of First Fruits is when Y'shua rose from the dead The first day beginning at sundown after Shabbat.
Shavuot also celebrates the giving of the Torah to Moses by YHvH The Book of Ruth is read by all during this feast. Ruth (gentile bride) and Boaz (Kinsman-Redeemer) are ancestors Pentecost is the mandatory feast of YHvH :
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
It was not a surprise for the followers of the Mashiach known as Yah'shua.
which is a mandatory feast of YHvH to be celebrated in Jerusalem.
following the L-rd's Feast of First Fruits.
as an offering to YHvH as the First Fruits of of the creation.
The YHvH's Feast of First Fruits is the day following the shabbat
following Passover, hence the first day of the week. Leviticus 23:15 'You shall also count for yourselves from the day after the sabbath,
Shavuot is the end of the counting of the Omer (First Fruits)
from the day when you brought in the sheaf of the wave offering;
there shall be seven complete sabbaths.
16 'You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh sabbath;
then you shall present a new grain offering to the LORD.
at Mount Sinai and they became a people consecrated to YHvH.
The story of Ruth is about a gentile woman who
gives up her pagan gods to follow YHvH then becomes
the bride of the kinsman-redeemer and returns
the landless widow to the land( Israel) which had been her birthright.
of Yah'shua from Beit-Lechem.(The house of Bread).