{"query": "Easton: Gospel", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_efd92dd5f79e", "title": "Easton: Luke, Gospel according to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was written by Luke. He does not claim to have been an eye-witness of our Lord’s ministry, but to have gone to the best sources of information within his reach, and to have written an orderly narrativ"}, {"id": "card_n_ced4babf8538", "title": "Easton: Gospel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A word of Anglo-Saxon origin, and meaning “God’s spell”, i.e., word of God, or rather, according to others, “good spell”, i.e., good news. It is the rendering of the Greek evangelion, i.e., “good mess"}, {"id": "card_n_8b46004c8d35", "title": "Easton: Matthew, Gospel according to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The author of this book was beyond a doubt the Matthew, an apostle of our Lord, whose name it bears. He wrote the Gospel of Christ according to his own plans and aims, and from his own point of view, "}, {"id": "card_n_c5d384b56970", "title": "Easton: John, Gospel of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The genuineness of this Gospel, i.e., the fact that the apostle John was its author, is beyond all reasonable doubt. In recent times, from about 1820, many attempts have been made to impugn its genuin"}, {"id": "card_n_e72941a03901", "title": "Easton: Mark, Gospel according to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "It is the current and apparently well-founded tradition that Mark derived his information mainly from the discourses of Peter. In his mother’s house he would have abundant opportunities of obtaining i"}, {"id": "card_n_23ddfa0652b0", "title": "Easton: Acts of the Apostles", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The title now given to the fifth and last of the historical books of the New Testament. The author styles it a “treatise” (1:1). It was early called “The Acts,” “The Gospel of the Holy Ghost,” and “Th"}, {"id": "card_n_68206af8ef18", "title": "Easton: Philemon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An inhabitant of Colosse, and apparently a person of some note among the citizens (Col. 4:9; Philemon 1:2). He was brought to a knowledge of the gospel through the instrumentality of Paul (19), and he"}, {"id": "card_n_e45e7e2430ff", "title": "Easton: Saviour", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One who saves from any form or degree of evil. In its highest sense the word indicates the relation sustained by our Lord to his redeemed ones, he is their Saviour. The great message of the gospel is "}, {"id": "card_n_5ffab37953c6", "title": "Easton: Evangelist", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A “publisher of glad tidings;” a missionary preacher of the gospel (Eph. 4:11). This title is applied to Philip (Acts 21:8), who appears to have gone from city to city preaching the word (8:4, 40). Ju"}, {"id": "card_n_06aa0f5f9391", "title": "Easton: Stephen", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the seven deacons, who became a preacher of the gospel. He was the first Christian martyr. His personal character and history are recorded in Acts 6. “He fell asleep” with a prayer for his pers"}, {"id": "card_n_b428a2a3bda7", "title": "Easton: Apostle", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A person sent by another; a messenger; envoy. This word is once used as a descriptive designation of Jesus Christ, the Sent of the Father (Heb. 3:1; John 20:21). It is, however, generally used as desi"}, {"id": "card_n_4386d44613c7", "title": "Easton: Millennium", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A thousand years; the name given to the era mentioned in Rev. 20:1-7. Some maintain that Christ will personally appear on earth for the purpose of establishing his kingdom at the beginning of this mil"}, {"id": "card_n_4c70970fb72d", "title": "Easton: Ephesians, Epistle to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was written by Paul at Rome about the same time as that to the Colossians, which in many points it resembles. Contents of. The Epistle to the Colossians is mainly polemical, designed to refute certain"}, {"id": "card_c_b1932115373a", "title": "Easton: Gospel references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_4764e0825e1e", "title": "Easton: Gospel cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 20:24 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_07b98e5765b7", "title": "Easton: Matthew, Gospel according to references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_acee1c7c1f82", "title": "Easton: Mark, Gospel according to references Romans", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Romans. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_e41fd026b10b", "title": "Easton: Matthew, Gospel according to references John", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references John. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_4d2289ea3748", "title": "Easton: Mark, Gospel according to cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 11:20 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_dab09e5d9edb", "title": "Easton: Euodias", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A good journey, a female member of the church at Philippi. She was one who laboured much with Paul in the gospel. He exhorts her to be of one mind with Syntyche (Phil. 4:2). From this it seems they ha"}]}