Mark 14:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And he will shew you a large upper room furnished and prepared: there make ready for us. Furnished - Spread with carpets - εστρωμενον - so this word is often used. See Wakefield. But it may also signify the couches on which the guests reclined when eating. It does not appear that the Jews ate the passover now, as their fathers did formerly, standing, with their shoes on, and their staves in their hands.