Comments on: The Other Upper Room https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/the-other-upper-room/ Mon, 31 Mar 2025 13:48:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Brianroy https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/the-other-upper-room/#comment-2000081340 Tue, 30 Mar 2021 13:58:45 +0000 https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/?p=65694#comment-2000081340 It is my view that the true Pentecost upper Room of the Southeast Temple Court subjoining both the southern wall’s Royal portico, and the Eastern wall’s Portico of Solomon. (cf. John 10:23; Acts 3:11; 5:12)
The Temple’s upper room, and the one in the Book of Acts, oversaw a very great height and drop at the Southeast Corner of the Temple Mount {cf. Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, 15.11.5} (before being filled in by the Romans attacking Jerusalem in A.D. 70).

If you will note the constrictions of Jerusalem in A.D. 30, there is no location in the city for the 120 to assemble and spill out to speak to any MULTITUDE of many nations (as listed in Acts 2:5-11, for example, except they of the 120 be in the Temple Mount and immediately spill out to the Court of the Gentiles at the Temple so that tens of thousands can be immediately affected.. Jesus spoke at Solomon’s Portico and taught.
The real upper room is connected to that same Solomon’s portico, and it makes sense to return to a location next to and adjoined to where Jesus spent 4 of his last days teaching from. Any other location than that is intentional disinformation by an unbelieving and hostile to Christianity Conspiracy academia who can’t date the New Testament accurately to its real history date, let alone the Exodus, nor decipher the Calendar Josephus used and how it, Greek history, and early Christian writings all agree on a 1551 B.C. Exodus from Egypt. To ruin all that prior and CURRENT teaching materials with the true reality and show them up as fools or liars? Shame!

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