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.

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

'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;