{"query": "Easton: Essenes", "count": 4, "results": [{"id": "card_n_846f4a2a582a", "title": "Easton: Essenes", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A Jewish mystical sect somewhat resembling the Pharisees. They affected great purity. They originated about B.C. 100, and disappeared from history after the destruction of Jerusalem. They are not dire"}, {"id": "card_c_824bc4ddfbce", "title": "Easton: Essenes references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_42d4369ca253", "title": "Easton: Essenes 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_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"}]}