Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

2. For the place, it is laid down in this passage, where the Disciples were assembled. Now if we would know where that was, the Evangelist Luke speaks expressly, it was in Jerusalem; ¹but in what house of Jerusalem it is unknown; only some conjecture that it was in the house of some Disciple, wherein was an upper room. This upper room, according to the manner of their buildings at that time, was the most large and capacious of any other,² and the most retired and free from disturbance, and next to heaven, as having no room above it. Mede tells us expressly, this was the same room wherein Christ celebrated the passover, and instituted the Lords supper, and whereon the day of his resurrection he came, and stood in the midst of his Disciples, the doors being shut; and where eight days after, the Disciples being within, he appeared again to satisfy the incredulity of Thomas; ³and where the Apostles met after Christ was ascended. Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the Mount called Olivet, —and when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and the rest. If this be true, it should seem that this [Greek or Hebrew] this upper room first consecrated by Christ at his institution, and celebration of the Lords supper,⁴ was thenceforth devoted to be a place of prayer, and holy assemblies; and for certain the place of this [Greek or Hebrew] was afterwards enclosed with a goodly Church, known by the name of the Church of Zion; to which Jerome made bold to apply that of the Psalm, The Lord loveth the gates of Zion, more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

2. For the place, it is laid down in this passage, where the Disciples were assembled. Now if we would know where that was, the Evangelist Luke speaks expresly, it was in Jerusalem; ¹but in what house of Jerusalem it is unknown; only some conjecture that it was in the house of some Disciple, wherein was an upper room. This upper room, according to the manner of their buildings at that time, was the most large and capacious of any other,