The purpose of this paper is to show how the Synagogue as an institution, as it was organized by the Jews on their return from the Exile in Babylon, not only provided the early Christian Church with a whole set of services, customs and ritual laws, but also supplied a certain kind of atmosphere which played an important part in the development of early Christianity.

This appears at the very beginning, when we find our Lord Jesus Christ himself using the institution and attending the Synagogue. It was in the Synagogue at Nazareth that Jesus first proclaimed himself the Messias, when he read from ‘the book of baias the prophet: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me … “ and added, ‘This day is fulfilled this Scripture in your ears'.