Time was when any one going into the synagogue of Nazareth would have seen Him, and might have spoken with Him.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
These things said his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man should confess Him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
But when the Bill to prevent occasional conformity was introduced by some hot-headed partisans of the High Church, towards the close of 1702, with the Queen's warm approval, Defoe took a course which made the Dissenters threaten to cast him altogether out of the synagogue.
"Daniel Defoe"
William Minto