The Gospels do not speak often of worship. The various Greek terms which might be considered its equivalents (latreia, leitourgia, proskynēsis, etc.) and the many technical terms connected with worship do not frequently appear in them. Moreover, many references to worship occur almost in passing; the time and place of a healing* miracle,* the Sabbath* in a synagogue*, for example, might be given. While the references to worship are often incidental, however, worship itself is by no means