Sentences with phrase «synagogues at»

The design began with a floor plan Schell and Fabian had in mind from early on — a plan taken from pre-fifth-century Syrian synagogues at a time when Christians and Jews used similar buildings.

Fairly soon he asked the high priest for authority to become an «apostle» to the synagogues at Damascus, in order to continue his inquisitorial work there.

For example, Jerusalem had over 400 synagogues at the time of Christ.

The majority of New Yorkers would be in church or synagogue at least once that week.

Luke adds that he was «filled with the power of the Spirit» when he returned to Galilee, and that when he read from the scroll of Isaiah in the synagogue at Nazareth he began with the passage that said, «The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor» (Luke 4:14 - 18).

Many commentators think that Jesus» withdrawal from the synagogue at this point marked his abandonment of the old Israel and his inauguration of the new Israel through the church.

On the one hand, Luke can present Jesus in the synagogue at Nazareth as proclaiming Isaiah's prophecy of release to captives, liberation of the oppressed, recovery of sight, as already fulfilled in him (Lk 4: 16 — 21).

We have met the scribes in the synagogue at Capernaum (Mk 1:22).

Matthew marks the conclusions of the discourse (7:28 - 29) with his usual formula («And when Jesus finished these sayings»), completing the sentence with the statement made by Mark and Luke about Jesus» teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum (cf. Mk 1:22; Lk 4:32): «the crowds were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one who had authority, and not as their scribes.»

This contrast between Jesus and the Jews (and the similar contrast between church and synagogue at the time John writes) gives us the true theological meaning of the two healings at the beginning of this section, and further portrays the radically new thing that is catering the world in Christ.

Curiously enough, by placing the event after the Sabbath in Capernaum, Luke implies (4:38 - 39) that at least one of the four already knew Jesus, for Jesus had gone to Simon's house from the synagogue at Capernaum.

Teaching and healing in the synagogue at Capernaum.

Naturally you don't believe Luke's gospel, but Jesus is quoted as READING in the synagogue at Capernaum — doen't sound like illiteracy to me.

In 1970, archaeologists discovered the charred remains of a parchment scroll in the ruins of a Byzantine synagogue at Ein Gedi, along the western shore of the Dead Sea.

St. Luke used the programmatic account of Jesus in the synagogue at Nazareth to define Jesus» mission.

He apparently can not agree with Mark that the tetrarch Herod would suppose that John had risen from the dead, so he ascribes this opinion to others (9:7 - 9) He realizes that the beginning of Jesus» mission, as Mark relates it, is historically incomprehensible, and he therefore tells how Jesus read from Isaiah in the synagogue at Nazareth and stated that the prophecy had been fulfilled (4:21).

Jesus in the incident in the synagogue at Nazareth modeled what Luke intended speaking in the Spirit to mean.

We do not know whether there was a school attached to the synagogue at Nazareth during his lifetime, or, if so, whether he attended it.

The Buffalo Grove Park District bought the former Congregation Beth Am synagogue at 225 N. McHenry Road in the fall of 2012.

Firefighters are battling to save what's left of Beth Hamedrash Hagadol, the historic synagogue at 60 Norfolk St.. You can see and smell the smoke from blocks away on the Lower East Side tonight.

Here are more photos and video from the scene of the huge fire that broke out tonight at Beth Hamedrash Hagadol, the historic synagogue at 60 Norfolk St.. We're told that the fire is just about out at this point but...

The festivities will begin at a Monsey synagogue at 5 p.m. with a crafts program for children, -LSB-...]

Though raised in the Jewish faith and receiving a rabbinical education, Spinoza was expelled from the synagogue at Amsterdam for defending heretical opinions in 1656.

Built in 1887 in Neo-Gothic and Neo-Renaisance style, the synagogue at 5 Vasvári Pál Street is hidden in a courtyard surrounded by residential buildings.

Leg 4 - Gozsdu Courtyard to Kazinczy Street Synagogue At the Dob utca end of Gozsdu Courtyard is the Spinoza House, a café, restaurant and theater.

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From there, he's off to Atlanta to give a talk at a synagogue.

At the breaking up of this pacific and free assembly, some withdraw to the synagogue, and others to take a glass.

At a synagogue just a mile from where she had been gunned down, Meadow Pollack, 18, lay in a plain wooden coffin, closed in accordance with Jewish tradition.

Rabbi Nosson Schuman suffered minor burns in the incident Wednesday at Beth El Synagogue in Rutherford.

The FBI is investigating a rash of anti-Semitic attacks in northern New Jersey, including the attempted murder of a rabbi after incendiary devices were thrown at his home above a synagogue.

«And when you pray, do not imitate the hypocrites: they love to say their prayers standing up in the synagogues and at the street corners for people to see them.

That said, the woman at the synagogue was drawing attention to a real change in our society.

A few weeks ago, I found myself speaking about interfaith marriage at a Reform synagogue in a wealthy suburb of New York.

«I will make those who are of the Synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars — I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you.

He would jam in the Temple or the nearest synagogue, or maybe at any Jewish wedding or celebration while turning water into wine.

I teach Jewish law and history at a synagogue.

The Rev. Al Sharpton, who eulogized Gavin Cato after the attacks, announced this week he was pulling out of a panel at New York's Hampton Synagogue after some Jewish activists criticized his participation in the event.

The incident happened at around 7 am local time at Kehilot Yaakov synagogue in Har Nof neighbourhood.

The newest version of the Bible has now been published, and is available at all churches, synagogues and mosques near you.

Meanwhile, services for its congregation are being held at a nearby synagogue, the Washington Hebrew Congregation.

These rabbis are under constant demand for employment at many reconstructionist synagogues.

At an Orthodox synagogue in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx, on March 22, Jewish history was made.

Then came the sermon, which was based on one of the most important passages of the New Testament, the one where Jesus teaches at the synagogue in Nazareth and explains exactly what his ministry is all about:

Not only does Glick, who lives in Jerusalem, stand at the front of synagogues and sing solemn prayers on Rosh Hashana, but he is an EMT for United Hatazalah, a volunteer emergency service.

They love the place of honor at banquets and the chief seats in the synagogues, and respectful greetings in the market places (verse 6 — 7)

Through the seventies and eighties, as at present, 40 percent of Americans say they attended church or synagogue in the last seven days.

Hearing his stirring words in the synagogue, his old neighbors approve of him, are proud of him and wonder at the grace of his speech.

The emphasis at the synagogues then was to teach through the Bible.

But they did very little singing (if any) in the actual gathering at the synagogue.

There is no real correlation between Godliness and the Church, Mosque, Synagogue, or Faith Temple at all.