Acts 2:2-3, 13-15: Why the bizarre response?

[NotWorthy]

I found some information on the Upper Room from AgapeBibleStudy.Com

According to tradition the location of the Upper Room in Jerusalem is above the tomb of the great King David. On the occasion of the second Great Pentecost a huge crowd of people were gathered outside the building that housed the Upper Room and the tomb of King David. They may have been drawn by the roaring sound of the wind [Acts 2:2] or perhaps they had come to pay homage to the tomb of Israel’s great king since according to Jewish tradition the Feast of Pentecost was the time of David’s birth as well as his death. That it was believed that the tomb of David was located there is indicated in Simon-Peter’s many references to David in his homily. You can almost see Peter gesturing to David’s tomb in Acts 2:29 as he speaks of how the resurrected Jesus is greater than David the king: "Brothers, no one can deny that the patriarch David himself is dead and buried: his tomb is still with us."

 

[NotWorthy]

The **Cenacle **is the name of the place:

From bibarch.com/ArchaeologicalSites/Cenacle.htm

Just outside the Zion Gate of the old city in Jerusalem, near the crest of Mount Zion, lie the partial remains of an ancient building known as the Cenacle. These consist of a niche

, walls, floors, and foundations incorporated into a building now venerated by both Jews and Christians.

For Jews the site is the traditional location of David’s Tomb (the pseudo-tomb not the actual tomb) marked by a small synagogue on the first floor. Christians regard this location as that of the ancient venue of the Upper Room or Cenacle. A memorial of this heritage, dating to the 14th century, consists of the reconstructed Room of the Last Supper and the adjoining Chapel of the Holy Spirit on the second floor. While a single building houses the two memorials, each has a separate entrance.

Although there is general agreement that the original building was a first-century CE synagogue, both Jews and Christians claim it as their own relying on a statement by Epiphanius (CE ca. 315- 402/3 ). Writing late in the fourth century, he claimed that when the Roman emperor Hadrian (CE 76-138 ) visited Jerusalem (ca. 131/132) a small “Church of God” and seven synagogues existed on Mount Zion. Christians argue that the present-day remains are those of the small Judeo-Christian synagogue, which Epiphanius called a Church of God, constructed on the site of the Upper Room by Judeo-Christian refugees returning from Pella about CE 73. Jews claim it as one of the seven synagogues of the Jews observed by Hadrian. Epiphanius stated in chapter 14 of his work De Mensurius et Ponderibus (Treatise on Weights and Measures), a biblical dictionary that discusses, among other things, the geography of Palestine, that Hadrian

…found the entire city devastated and the temple of God trampled down, except for a few houses and the church of God, which was small, where the disciples, after they returned when the savior was taken up from the Mount of Olives, went up to the upper room. For there it had been built, that is, in the part of Zion that was kept from the destruction, and the blocks of houses around Zion itself, and seven synagogues, which stood alone like huts, one of which remained until the time of Maximona the bishop and Constantine the king, “like a booth in a vineyard,” as it is written. Therefore Hadrian decided to build the city, but not the temple. And he took this Aquila, who was mentioned before, as interpreter…. (Koester 1989:93.)

 

[Genesius]

Now, see what I started…LOL.

 

[NotWorthy]

Now, see what I started…LOL.

Yes, it looks like the responses to your OP are more bizzare than the “New Wine” response, eh?