He went on from there and entered their synagogue. The second Sabbath confrontation is in the synagogue — the formal teaching space — rather than the informal setting of the grainfield. The their synagogue communicates the ownership conflict: the Pharisees' synagogue, where they set the terms of acceptable religious practice. The confrontation in the synagogue is public and formal, raising the stakes from the informal roadside dispute over the disciples' grain-plucking.

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