Quotes about Synagogues

and requested letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any men or women belonging to the Way, he could bring them as prisoners to Jerusalem.

Saul promptly began to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues, declaring, “He is the Son of God.”

When they arrived at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the Jewish synagogues. And John was with them as their helper.

For Moses has been proclaimed in every city from ancient times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath.”

I frequently had them punished in the synagogues, and I tried to make them blaspheme. In my raging fury against them, I even went to foreign cities to persecute them.

The Temple Pharisees were known as keepers of the tradition, staunch defenders of the Jewish law — and the minutiae with which they had surrounded it. Unlike the Sadducees, ardent foes on the Temple Council, the Pharisees traveled about Judea, lecturing in synagogues and searching out any perceived wrongdoing.