I have also seen the Prophet Malachy hidden beneath this same roof: he there wrote his prophecies concerning the Blessed Sacrament and the Sacrifice of the New Law.

Solomon held this house in honour, and performed within its walls some figurative and symbolical action, which I have forgotten.

When a great part of Jerusalem was destroyed by the Babylonians, this house was spared.

I have seen many other things concerning this same house, but I only remember what I have now told.
This building was in a very dilapidated state when it became the property of Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea, who arranged the principal building in a very suitable manner, and let it as a supper-room to strangers coming to Jerusalem for the purpose of celebrating the festival of the Pasch.

Thus it was that our Lord had made use of it the previous year.