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Bible Verses About Synagogues

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  1. A man there had a shriveled hand. Looking for a reason to accuse him of something, they asked him, "Is healing permitted on Shabbat?"

  2. they love the place of honor at banquets and the best seats in the synagogues,

  3. Therefore I am sending you prophets and sages and Torah-teachers -- some of them you will kill, indeed, you will have them executed on stakes as criminals; some you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town.

  4. In their synagogue just then was a man with an unclean spirit in him, who shouted,

  5. So he traveled all through the Galil, preaching in their synagogues and expelling demons.

  6. There came to him a synagogue official, Ya'ir by name, who fell at his feet

  7. Now when he went to Natzeret, where he had been brought up, on Shabbat he went to the synagogue as usual. He stood up to read,

  8. and he was given the scroll of the prophet Yesha`yahu. Unrolling the scroll, he found the place where it was written,

  9. After closing the scroll and returning it to the shammash, he sat down; and the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him.

  10. He started to speak to them: "Today, as you heard it read, this passage of the Tanakh was fulfilled!"

  11. for he loves our people -- in fact, he built the synagogue for us!"

  12. “When they bring you before the synagogues and the ruling powers and the authorities, don’t worry about how you will defend yourself or what you will say;

  13. Yeshua was teaching in one of the synagogues on Shabbat.

  14. A woman came up who had a spirit which had crippled her for eighteen years; she was bent double and unable to stand erect at all.

  15. But before all this, they will arrest you and persecute you, handing you over to the synagogues and prisons; and you will be brought before kings and governors. This will all be on account of me,

  16. The parents said this because they were afraid of the Judeans, for the Judeans had already agreed that anyone who acknowledged Yeshua as the Messiah would be banned from the synagogue.

  17. “Why, you mamzer!” they retorted, “Are you lecturing us?” And they threw him out.

  18. Nevertheless, many of the leaders did trust in him; but because of the P’rushim they did not say so openly, out of fear of being banned from the synagogue;

  19. They will ban you from the synagogue; in fact, the time will come when anyone who kills you will think he is serving God!

  20. But opposition arose from members of the Synagogue of the Freed Slaves (as it was called), composed of Cyrenians, Alexandrians and people from Cilicia and the province of Asia. They argued with Stephen,

  21. and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Dammesek, authorizing him to arrest any people he might find, whether men or women, who belonged to “the Way,” and bring them back to Yerushalayim.

  22. and immediately he began proclaiming in the synagogues that Yeshua is the Son of God.

  23. After landing in Salamis, they began proclaiming the word of God in the synagogues, with Yochanan (Mark) as an assistant;

  24. but the others went on from Perga to Pisidian Antioch, and on Shabbat they went into the synagogue and sat down.

  25. After the reading from the Torah and from the Prophets, the synagogue leaders sent them a message, “Brothers, if any of you has a word of exhortation for the people, speak!”