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Ndigila,

Below is a brief excerpt of Sabbath worship as done by Paul and his companions as recorded in Acts:

Acts 13
In Pisidian Antioch, they went to preach the gospel and "on the Sabbath they entered the synagogue and sat down. After the reading from the Law and the Prophets..." Paul stood up and preached. Vs 13-16 onwards.

Vs 27 reveals that worship was done every Sabbath by these wordings, "the people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognise Jesus, yet in condemning him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath". Note the phrase are read instead of were read.

To emphasise on the above, the Sabbath worship was the only one known even in Antioch when "the people invited them to speak further about these things on the next Sabbath...On the next Sabbath the whole city gathered to hear the word of the Lord". Vs 42-44. To show that the people were not even Jews, vs 45 says that the Jews were jealous of the crowd.

Acts 15
This is the chapter about the first council meeting. The theme of the council is to find what message to pass to the Gentiles where vs 21 clearly says that even this Gentile message "is read in the synagogue on every Sabbath". Please note the present tense and frequency.

Acts 16
This chapter is even more authoritative for it reveals that the act of Sabbath keeping was not a mere worship service, but an act honoured by the apostles. Vs 12- 13 says, "From there we travelled to Philippi, a Roman colony and the leading city of that district of Macedonia. And we stayed there several days. On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there."

Acts 17 and 18
Here Paul and his companion went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day "as his custom was" Acts 17:2. This parallels Jesus custom to go into the synagogue every Sabbath day. See Luke 4:16.

Paul's custom is further pointed out when he travelled to Corinth where all the days of his stay "he reasoned in the synagogue, trying to persuade Jews and Greeks". Acts 18:4.

The first day recorded in Acts 20 was Saturday night after sunset of Saturday. Remember the timing was always sunset to sunset so on this Saturday evening after the Sabbath they came to break bread because on the morrow (Sunday day time), Paul was to leave. The breaking of the bread was not tied to Sunday because Jesus broke bread with the twelf on Thursday night, whereas Paul wrote in 1 Corinthianths 11 that it is done as "often as you meet".