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Traditional interpretation holds that the Descent of the Holy Spirit took place in the Upper Room, or Cenacle, while celebrating the day of Pentecost ( Shavuot ).

The Upper Room was first mentioned in Luke 22: 12-13 ( " And he shall shew you a large upper room furnished: there make ready.

And they went, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover .").

This Upper Room was to be the location of the Last Supper and the institution of Holy Communion.

The next mention of an Upper Room is in Acts 1: 13-14, the continuation of the Luke narrative, authored by the same biblical writer.

Here the disciples and women wait and they gave themselves up to constant prayer: " And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.

These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

" Then the greatest event in history with exception of Jesus ' Resurrection, took place in Acts 2: 1 – 2, " And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.

And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

", " they " refers to the aforementioned disciples and women ,; the " place " referring to the same Upper Room where these persons had " continued with one accord in prayer and supplication ".