upper room

upper room

The room in which Jesus is said to have celebrated his last meal with the disciples (Mark 14:15). According to (Acts 1:13), the disciples continued to gather there in the days before Pentecost.

Mark 14:15

15He will show you a large room upstairs, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there.”

Acts 1:13

13When they had entered the city, they went to the room upstairs where they were staying, Peter, and John, and James, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew ... View more

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