{"query": "Easton: Council", "count": 17, "results": [{"id": "card_n_f2fc8ec22344", "title": "Easton: Sanhedrim", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "More correctly Sanhedrin (Gr. synedrion), meaning “a sitting together,” or a “council.” This word (rendered “council,” A.V.) is frequently used in the New Testament (Matt. 5:22; 26:59; Mark 15:1, etc."}, {"id": "card_n_24ef8c2d3b2a", "title": "Easton: Council", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Spoken of counsellors who sat in public trials with the governor of a province (Acts 25:12). The Jewish councils were the Sanhedrim, or supreme council of the nation, which had subordinate to it small"}, {"id": "card_n_db1f2d2a2201", "title": "Easton: Areopagus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Latin form of the Greek word rendered “Mars’ hill.” But it denotes also the council or court of justice which met in the open air on the hill. It was a rocky height to the west of the Acropolis at"}, {"id": "card_n_8be3e722233b", "title": "Easton: Silas", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Wood, a prominent member of the church at Jerusalem; also called Silvanus. He and Judas, surnamed Barsabas, were chosen by the church there to accompany Paul and Barnabas on their return to Antioch fr"}, {"id": "card_n_a7883bf5ce3a", "title": "Easton: Jehu", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Jehovah is he. (1.) The son of Obed, and father of Azariah (1 Chr. 2:38). (2.) One of the Benjamite slingers that joined David at Ziklag (1 Chr. 12:3). (3.) The son of Hanani, a prophet of Judah (1 Ki"}, {"id": "card_c_1b3f9aa916a0", "title": "Easton: Council references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_295006767cdb", "title": "Easton: Council cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 25:12 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_4333b1513bcb", "title": "Easton: Council cites Mark", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Mark 13:9 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_2b3817b3f900", "title": "Easton: Council cites John", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites John 16:2 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_870a1630149e", "title": "Easton: Council references Jerusalem", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Jerusalem (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place."}, {"id": "card_c_ae5b8110a189", "title": "Easton: Council references Palestine", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Palestine (place) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a place."}, {"id": "card_n_660ae60c5c82", "title": "Easton: Pharisees", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Separatists (Heb. persahin, from parash, “to separate”). They were probably the successors of the Assideans (i.e., the “pious”), a party that originated in the time of Antiochus Epiphanes in revolt ag"}, {"id": "card_n_9aa445f45094", "title": "Easton: Gamaliel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Reward of God. (1.) A chief of the tribe of Manasseh at the census at Sinai (Num. 1:10; 2:20; 7:54, 59). (2.) The son of rabbi Simeon, and grandson of the famous rabbi Hillel. He was a Pharisse, and t"}, {"id": "card_n_336d279321b6", "title": "Easton: Caiaphas", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Jewish high priest (A.D. 27-36) at the beginning of our Lord’s public ministry, in the reign of Tiberius (Luke 3:2), and also at the time of his condemnation and crucifixion (Matt. 26:3, 57; John "}, {"id": "card_n_b003bb46e6aa", "title": "Easton: Blood", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) As food, prohibited in Gen. 9:4, where the use of animal food is first allowed. Comp. Deut. 12:23; Lev. 3:17; 7:26; 17:10-14. The injunction to abstain from blood is renewed in the decree of the "}, {"id": "card_n_4f4a1850fb90", "title": "Easton: Exodus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The great deliverance wrought for the children of Isreal when they were brought out of the land of Egypt with “a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm” (Ex 12:51; Deut. 26:8; Ps 114; 136), about B."}, {"id": "card_n_0a57be27db93", "title": "Easton: Titus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Honourable, was with Paul and Barnabas at Antioch, and accompanied them to the council at Jerusalem (Gal. 2:1-3; Acts 15:2), although his name nowhere occurs in the Acts of the Apostles. He appears to"}]}