Editing Last Supper (section)

===Location===
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[[File:Cenacle on Mount Zion.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Cenacle]] on [[Mount Zion]], claimed to be the location of the Last Supper and [[Pentecost]].]]
According to later tradition, the Last Supper took place in what is today called The [[Cenacle|Room of the Last Supper]] on [[Mount Zion]], just outside the walls of the [[Old City (Jerusalem)|Old City]] of [[Jerusalem]], and is traditionally known as The Upper Room. This is based on the account in the [[Synoptic Gospels]] that states that Jesus had instructed two disciples (Luke 22:8 specifies that Jesus sent Peter and John) to go to "the city" to meet "a man carrying a jar of water", who would lead them to a house, where they would find "a large upper room furnished and ready".<ref>{{bibleverse|Mark|14:13–15}}</ref> In this upper room they "prepare the Passover".

No more specific indication of the location is given in the New Testament, and the "city" referred to may be a [[suburb]] of Jerusalem, such as Bethany, rather than Jerusalem itself.

A structure on [[Mount Zion]] in Jerusalem is currently called [[Cenacle|the Cenacle]] and is purported to be the location of the Last Supper. [[Bargil Pixner]] claims the original site is located beneath the current structure of the Cenacle on [[Mount Zion]].{{sfn|Pixner|1990}}

The traditional location is in an area that, according to [[archaeology]], had a large [[Essenes|Essene]] community, a point made by scholars who suspect a link between Jesus and the group.<ref name="Kilgallen" />

[[Monastery of Saint Mark|Saint Mark's Syrian Orthodox Church in Jerusalem]] is another possible site for the room in which the Last Supper was held, and contains a Christian stone inscription testifying to early reverence for that spot. Certainly the room they have is older than that of the current cenaculum (crusader – 12th century) and as the room is now underground the relative altitude is correct (the streets of 1st century Jerusalem were at least {{convert|12|ft|m|abbr=off|spell=in}} lower than those of today, so any true building of that time would have even its upper story currently under the earth). They also have a revered Icon of the Virgin Mary, reputedly painted from life by St Luke.