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charge against him was that of healing on the sabbath. That this charge would not stand in the religious court of the Sanhedrin

R. Alan Cole, Mark: An Introduction and Commentary, vol. 2, Tyndale New Testament Commentaries (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1989), 128.

been primarily to the more traditionally Jewish parts of the province. The mention of “synagogues” reinforces this focus; in first-century Galilee the term may denote village assemblies rather than buildings erected for worship

R. T. France, The Gospel of Matthew, The New International Commentary on the New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publication Co., 2007), 149.

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OPENING PRAYER - “Bless ye the Lord who is to be blessed.” Then followed the two main elements, common to both morning and evening services, of the Shemaʿ and

J. B. Taylor, “The Old Testament Background,” in Baker’s Dictionary of Practical Theology, ed. Ralph G. Turnbull (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1967), 376.

ARCHITECTURE portable chest for the scrolls of the Law and the Prophets, and a platform for the reading of the Scriptures and for preaching. Men and women sat apart. Jesus spoke of the way the scribes loved the “chief seats” facing the people (Mk 12:39). Many synagogues had ornamentation of vine leaves, seven-branched candlesticks, the paschal lamb, and the pot of manna. Early synagogues also had a genizah, which was a cellar or attic where worn scrolls were put, because, as they bore the name of God, they were too sacred to be destroyed.

Walter A. Elwell and Barry J. Beitzel, “Synagogue,” in Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1988), 2008.