believing that those who knew the Old Testament scriptures would be the first to respond to the Good News about Jesus. When we come to the book of Revelation (written some thirty years after Paul’s death), however, the risen Lord’s description of one particular synagogue in Asia Minor paints it in a very different light: ‘I will make those of Satan’s synagogue, who claim to be Jews but are lying frauds, come and fall down at your feet; and they shall know that you are my beloved people’ (Rev. 3:9