{
  "article": "<section class=\"plain-english-door\" aria-label=\"Introduction\">\n  <p class=\"plain-english-door__kicker\">Direct identity evidence</p>\n  <h3>Synoptic worship scenes place Jesus under devotion-language pressure.</h3>\n  <p class=\"plain-english-door__lead\">The Synoptic Gospels contain scenes where people bow before Jesus or respond to him with worship-shaped homage. The Greek term can carry a range from homage to worship, so this row must not overclaim. Its value is narrower: the worship/homage pattern pressures accounts where Jesus remains only a detached moral teacher.</p>\n</section>\n\n<div class=\"detail-section-heading\">Observation</div>\n<div class=\"detail-article-block\">\n<p><strong>Synoptic proskynesis scenes are ambiguous but not empty.</strong> Matthew especially uses worship/homage language around Jesus in scenes such as the Magi, the stilling of the storm, post-resurrection encounter, and the Great Commission setting. These scenes need genre and semantic caution, but they contribute to a larger Christ-identity pattern.</p>\n<p>This row is capped with early worship and high-Christology evidence. It is not a replacement for 1 Corinthians 8, Philippians 2, Maranatha, Revelation 5, or John 1.</p>\n</div>\n\n<div class=\"detail-section-heading\">What It Shows</div>\n<div class=\"detail-article-block\">\n<ul>\n<li>The Synoptic tradition can portray Jesus receiving religiously charged homage.</li>\n<li>The strongest force appears cumulatively with authority, Son of Man, resurrection, and early worship rows.</li>\n<li>The datum is Christ-specific but semantically cautious.</li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n\n<div class=\"detail-section-heading\">What It Does Not Show</div>\n<div class=\"detail-article-block\">\n<ul>\n<li>It does not prove that every instance of proskynesis means divine worship.</li>\n<li>It does not prove the Resurrection or settle later Trinitarian doctrine.</li>\n<li>It does not duplicate Revelation 5's heavenly worship scene or 1 Corinthians 8's Shema-shaped confession.</li>\n<li>It should not erase Jewish monotheistic and royal-homage categories.</li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n\n<div class=\"detail-section-heading\">Bayesian Meaning</div>\n<div class=\"detail-article-block\">\n<p>The active weight is small and dependency-capped: <strong>H-CHRIST-IDENTITY: +0.025 log10BF</strong>. It is direct Christ-identity pressure only in a modest, semantically cautious way.</p>\n</div>\n\n<div class=\"detail-section-heading\">Caveats</div>\n<div class=\"detail-article-block\">\n<ul>\n<li>Proskynesis can mean royal homage, supplication, or worship depending on context.</li>\n<li>Matthew's theological shaping and post-resurrection framing matter.</li>\n<li>The row is capped with worship, invocation, baptism/name, and Synoptic authority evidence.</li>\n</ul>\n</div>",
  "axioms": [
    "A6",
    "A7"
  ],
  "bayes_factors": {
    "H-CHRIST-IDENTITY": {
      "log10BF": 0.025,
      "bf_min": 0,
      "bf_max": 0.04,
      "rationale": "Synoptic worship/homage scenes modestly pressure merely-teacher accounts, but the term can also indicate royal homage or supplication, so the score is intentionally small and capped."
    }
  },
  "bf_status": "ready",
  "category": "Early Christology / Worship",
  "citations": [
    "Matthew 2:11.",
    "Matthew 14:33.",
    "Matthew 28:9.",
    "Matthew 28:16-20.",
    "Luke 24:52.",
    "Larry W. Hurtado, Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity (Eerdmans, 2003).",
    "Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the God of Israel (Eerdmans, 2008).",
    "David Peterson, Engaging with God: A Biblical Theology of Worship (IVP, 1992), for worship-language caution."
  ],
  "counts_in_cache": true,
  "evidence_id": "E-SCR-SYNOPTIC-WORSHIP-PROSKYNESIS",
  "visual_asset": {
    "src": "assets/evidence-viewer/evidence-images/synoptic_worship_and_proskynesis_map.png",
    "title": "Synoptic worship and proskynesis scenes visual overview",
    "alt": "AI-generated conceptual visualization for Synoptic worship and proskynesis scenes. Illustrative only, not experimental data.",
    "caption": "AI-generated conceptual / comparative visualization ? illustrative only, not experimental data. Presented inside a Christian evidence map.",
    "width": 1448,
    "height": 1086
  },
  "hypothesis_ref": [
    "H-CHRIST-IDENTITY"
  ],
  "last_updated": "2026-05-28T00:00:00Z",
  "major_category": "Scripture / Text",
  "metadata": {
    "canonical_anchor": "E-HIST-SON-MAN-JUDGMENT",
    "cap_eligible": true,
    "cap_exempt_reason": null,
    "cap_family": "christ_identity_early_high_christology",
    "cap_notes": "Capped sibling support inside the early high-Christology/worship family. Do not stack freely with Revelation 5, 1 Corinthians 8, Philippians 2, Maranatha, prayer/invocation, baptism/name, or Synoptic divine-prerogative rows.",
    "cap_profile": "moderate_semi_independent",
    "category": "Early Christology / Worship",
    "counts_as_direct_christ_identity": true,
    "counts_as_direct_logos_synthesis": false,
    "counts_as_direct_resurrection": false,
    "dependency_cluster": "synoptic_divine_prerogatives",
    "dependency_cluster_id": "synoptic_worship_homage",
    "dependency_cluster_label": "Synoptic worship and homage scenes",
    "dependency_cluster_role": "sibling_support",
    "dependency_role": "sibling_support",
    "dependency_weight_class": "semi_independent",
    "directness": "supporting",
    "evidence_function": "direct_identity",
    "governance_reviewed": "2026-05-28",
    "last_updated": "2026-05-28",
    "major_category": "Scripture / Text",
    "rev": 1,
    "scoring_note": "Small Christ-identity support only; no direct Resurrection or Logos BF.",
    "source_note": "Handle proskynesis semantics carefully. Distinguish divine worship, royal homage, supplication, and narrative/theological framing.",
    "source_status": "source_review_pending",
    "sub_category": "Synoptic Worship"
  },
  "positive_apologetic": {
    "label": "Apologetic leverage",
    "title": "Homage language is not a whole doctrine, but it is not nothing.",
    "key_point": "Synoptic worship/homage scenes add a modest devotional-pressure strand to the larger Christ-identity field.",
    "conversation_move": "Grant the semantic range of proskynesis. Then ask why the Synoptic portrait repeatedly places Jesus in scenes of charged homage beside authority, resurrection, and early worship evidence.",
    "caveat": "Do not treat every bow as Nicene worship. This is capped, cautious support."
  },
  "scripture_passage": "Matthew 14:33; Matthew 28:9; Matthew 28:16-20; Luke 24:52",
  "source_note": "Use exact Synoptic worship/homage passages with semantic caution around proskynesis.",
  "status": "active",
  "sub_category": "Synoptic Worship",
  "summary": "Datum: Synoptic worship/homage scenes place Jesus under devotional-language pressure while preserving semantic and genre caveats.",
  "tags": [
    "Christology",
    "Worship",
    "Synoptics",
    "Scored"
  ],
  "tilt": "positive",
  "title": "Synoptic worship and proskynesis scenes",
  "type": "atomic"
}