Acts 1.13 – Upper Room

Acts 1.13 – Upper Room

One place Our Lord’s sacred feet trod the earth was ‘…the upstairs room where they were staying’ (Acts 1.13). This ‘Upper Room’ was in ‘the house of Mary the mother of John, also called Mark’ (Acts 12.12). Mark – author of the first written Gospel – was a Jerusalem kid who struggled to find his footing in mission work. The disciples and their Lord ate their Final Passover there.  The church father Epiphanius wrote of ‘a little church of God’ there since emperor Hadrian. In 1971 excavations in this southwest corner of old Jerusalem found two and three story structures with cisterns and baths; revealing wealthy inhabitants living in splendid private homes. Even from earliest times loyal followers gave freely to serve their King.