Harvest Festivals in the BibleThe phrase “Feast of Harvest” or “Festival of Harvest” or "Harvest Festival" is only found in Exodus 23:16 and 34:22, Numbers 28:26, Deuteronomy 16:10-16 and 2 Chronicles 8:13, depending on the translation. Jesus and Harvest ImageryJesus himself attended the Harvest Festival as recorded in John 7:1-13. Spiritual HarvestJesus took the idea of harvest to talk of the spiritual harvest of people. Additionally for Christians the idea of harvest has the idea of Christian mission and evangelism to reap a spiritual harvest, sometimes called the Great Commission. It connects the agricultural harvest with the spiritual harvest.