The Upper Room Prayer Meeting

Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey.

But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and sat down.

For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they did not know Him, nor even the voices of the Prophets which are read every Sabbath, have fulfilled them in condemning Him.

Blessing and Conflict at Antioch

So when the Jews went out of the synagogue, the Gentiles begged that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath.

On the next Sabbath almost the whole city came together to hear the word of God.

For Moses has had throughout many generations those who preach him in every city, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”

And on the Sabbath day we went out of the city to the riverside, where prayer was customarily made; and we sat down and spoke to the women who met there.

Then Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded both Jews and Greeks.