Thematic Bible: Primarily an assembly of jews and God-fearers
Thematic Bible
Synagogue » Primarily an assembly of jews and God-fearers » Had powers » Of criminal courts
And as I punished them often in all the synagogues, I tried to force them to blaspheme; and being furiously enraged at them, I kept pursuing them even to foreign cities.
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And I said, ‘Lord, they themselves understand that in one synagogue after another I used to imprison and beat those who believed in You.
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Synagogue » Primarily an assembly of jews and God-fearers » Had powers » Of religious courts
They answered him, “You were born entirely in sins, and are you teaching us?” So they put him out.
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His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed Him to be Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue.
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Nevertheless many even of the rulers believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing Him, for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue;
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Synagogue » Primarily an assembly of jews and God-fearers
Now when the meeting of the synagogue had broken up, many of the Jews and of the God-fearing proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking to them, were urging them to continue in the grace of God.
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For if a man comes into your assembly with a gold ring and dressed in fine clothes, and there also comes in a poor man in dirty clothes,
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Synagogue » Primarily an assembly of jews and God-fearers » Constitutes a court of justice
and asked for letters from him to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, both men and women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
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