Some of those who belonged to the so-called synagogue of the Libyans, the Cyrenians, and the Alexandrians, as well as to that of the Cilicians and Asiatics, started a dispute with Stephen,

and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus empowering him to put any man or woman in chains whom he could find belonging to the Way, and bring them to Jerusalem.

He lost no time in preaching throughout the synagogues that Jesus was the Son of God ??21 to the amazement of all his hearers, who said, "Is this not the man who in Jerusalem harried those who invoke this Name, the man who came here for the express purpose of carrying them all in chains to the high priests?"

On reaching Salamis they proclaimed the word of God in the Jewish synagogues, with John as their assistant.

but they passed on from Perga and arrived at Pisidian Antioch. On the sabbath they went into the synagogue and sat down;

and, after the reading of the Law and the prophets, the presidents of the synagogue sent to tell them, "Brothers, if you have any word of counsel for the people, say it."

After the synagogue broke up, a number of the Jews and the devout proselytes followed them; Paul and Barnabas talked to them and encouraged them to hold by the grace of God.

At Iconium the same thing happened. They went into the synagogue of the Jews and spoke in such a way that a great body both of Jews and Greeks believed.

for Moses has had his preachers from the earliest ages in every town, where he is read aloud in the synagogues every sabbath."

Travelling on through Amphipolis and Apollonia they reached Thessalonica. Here there was a Jewish synagogue,

Then the brothers at once sent off Paul and Silas by night to Beroea. When they arrived there, they betook themselves to the Jewish synagogue,

He argued in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout proselytes and also in the marketplace daily with those who chanced to be present.

Every sabbath he argued in the synagogue, persuading both Jews and Greeks.

Then he removed to the house of a devout proselyte called Titus Justus, which adjoined the synagogue.

But Crispus the president of the synagogue believed in the Lord, as did all his household, and many of the Corinthians listened, believed, and were baptized.

Then all [the Greeks] caught hold of Sosthenes the president of the synagogue and beat him in front of the tribunal; but Gallio took no notice.

When they reached Ephesus, Paul left them there. He went to the synagogue and argued with the Jews,

In the synagogue he was very outspoken at first; but when Aquila and Priscilla listened to him, they took him home and explained more accurately to him what the Way of God really meant.

Then Paul entered the synagogue and for three months spoke out fearlessly, arguing and persuading people about the Reign of God.

'But, Lord,' I said, 'they surely know it was I who imprisoned and flogged those who believed in you throughout the synagogues,

They never found me arguing with anyone in the temple or causing a riot either in the synagogues or in the city;

there was not a synagogue where I did not often punish them and force them to blaspheme; and in my frantic fury I persecuted them even to foreign towns.