SIGNIFICANCE
OF JEWISH SYNAGOGUE
1.
Synagogues
had their beginning in the Jewish Exile Period also known as the
Inter-Biblical Period which was between the writing of Malachi and
Matthew.
2.
The only reference
to the word synagogue in the Old Testament is an incorrect
translation (synagogues did not come into existence until after the
writing of this Psalm) found in Psalms 74:8 “They have burnt up all the synagogues(Hebrew
mioed= appointed place of meeting) of God in the land.”
3.
The word for
synagogue in the New Testament Greek is sunagoge= place where people are
led together.
4.
Matthew 4:23
“And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues,
and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of
sickness and all manner of disease among the people.”
5.
Matthew 9:35
“And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues,
and preaching the gospel of
the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the
people.”
6.
Matthew 10:17
“But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and
they will scourge you in their synagogues;”
7.
Mark 1:39
“Jesus preached in their synagogues throughout all Galilee, and
cast out demons.”
8.
Luke 4:16
“And Jesus came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as
his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day,
and stood up for to read from the prophet Isaiah: The Spirit of the Lord
is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor;
he hath sent me to heal the broken hearted, to preach deliverance to the
captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them
that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
And He began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled
in your ears.”
9.
Luke 12:11
“And when they bring you into the synagogues, and unto
magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall
answer, or what ye shall say: For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the
same hour what ye ought to say.”
10.
Luke
21:12 “They shall lay their hands upon you, and persecute you, delivering you
up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings
and rulers for my name’s sake.”
11.
John
12:42 “Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but
because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, let they should be put
out of the synagogue:”
12.
John
16:2 “They shall put you out of the synagogues; yea, the time cometh,
that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.”
13.
John
18:20 “Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue,
and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort; and in secret have I
said nothing.”
14.
Acts
6:9 “Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue
of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia
and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.”
15.
Acts
8:3 “As for Saul, he made havoc of the church, entering into every house,
and haling men and women committed them to prison.”
16.
Acts
9:1-2 “And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the
disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, and desired of him
letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this
way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto
Jerusalem.”
17.
Acts
9:20 “And straightway Paul preached Christ in the synagogues, that he
is the Son of God.”
18.
Acts
13:5 “And when Barnabas and Saul were at Salamis, they preached the word of
God in the synagogues of the Jews:”
19.
Acts
13:42, 46 “And when
the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that
these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath.
Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that
the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it
from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we
turn to the Gentiles.”
20.
Acts
17:1-3 “Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came
to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews: and Paul, as his
manner was, went in unto them, and three Sabbath days reasoned with them
out of the Scriptures, opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have
suffered, and risen again form the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I
preach unto you is Christ.”
21.
Acts
17:17 “Therefore disputed Paul in the synagogue with the Jews, and
with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with
him.”
22.
Acts
18:4, 6-7 “And Paul
reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and
the Greeks. And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, Paul shook
his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am
clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.
And Paul departed thence, and entered into a certain man’s house,
name Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue.”
23.
Acts
18:26 “And Apollos began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when
Aquilla and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded
unto him the way of God more perfectly.”
24.
Acts
19:8 “And Paul went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of
three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom
of God.”
25.
Acts
22:19-21 “And I said,
Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them
that believed on thee; and when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed,
I also was standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the
raiment of them that slew him. And
he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the
Gentiles.”
26.
Acts
26:11 “And I Paul punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled
them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted
them even unto strange cities.”
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