{"query": "Easton: Gospels", "count": 16, "results": [{"id": "card_n_fb7f817c5014", "title": "Easton: Gospels", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The central fact of Christian preaching was the intelligence that the Saviour had come into the world (Matt. 4:23; Rom. 10:15); and the first Christian preachers who called their account of the person"}, {"id": "card_c_f8f128bf0b32", "title": "Easton: Gospels references Matthew", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Card references Matthew. Auto-detected via book-name match."}, {"id": "card_c_219ebef44cd9", "title": "Easton: Gospels cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 21:8 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_c_7fc370234e6a", "title": "Easton: Gospels cites Luke", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites Luke 7:36 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_adc9a40cee7f", "title": "Easton: Magdalene", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A surname derived from Magdala, the place of her nativity, given to one of the Marys of the Gospels to distinguish her from the other Marys (Matt. 27:56, 61; 28:1, etc.). A mistaken notion has prevail"}, {"id": "card_n_76200f2ff6da", "title": "Easton: Bartholomew", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Son of Tolmai, one of the twelve apostles (Matt. 10:3; Acts 1:13); generally supposed to have been the same as Nathanael. In the synoptic gospels Philip and Bartholomew are always mentioned together, "}, {"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_4a276e3126f0", "title": "Easton: Judgment hall", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Gr. praitorion (John 18:28, 33; 19:9; Matt. 27:27), “common hall.” In all these passages the Revised Version renders “palace.” In Mark 15:16 the word is rendered “Praetorium” (q.v.), which is a Latin "}, {"id": "card_n_e0d745038e0f", "title": "Easton: Centurion", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A Roman officer in command of a hundred men (Mark 15:39, 44, 45). Cornelius, the first Gentile convert, was a centurion (Acts 10:1, 22). Other centurions are mentioned in Matt. 8:5, 8, 13; Luke 7:2, 6"}, {"id": "card_n_ec0751a680a8", "title": "Easton: Devil", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gr. diabolos), a slanderer, the arch-enemy of man’s spiritual interest (Job 1:6; Rev. 2:10; Zech. 3:1). He is called also “the accuser of the brethen” (Rev. 12:10). In Lev. 17:7 the word “devil” is t"}, {"id": "card_n_d71a58fce1e5", "title": "Easton: Peter, Second Epistle of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The question of the authenticity of this epistle has been much discussed, but the weight of evidence is wholly in favour of its claim to be the production of the apostle whose name it bears. It appear"}, {"id": "card_n_1cbe7c7ebf43", "title": "Easton: Judas", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Graecized form of Judah. (1.) The patriarch (Matt. 1:2, 3). (2.) Son of Simon (John 6:71; 13:2, 26), surnamed Iscariot, i.e., a man of Kerioth (Josh. 15:25). His name is uniformly the last in the "}, {"id": "card_n_e78d0d591b18", "title": "Easton: Sadducees", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The origin of this Jewish sect cannot definitely be traced. It was probably the outcome of the influence of Grecian customs and philosophy during the period of Greek domination. The first time they ar"}, {"id": "card_n_ab437ef6a525", "title": "Easton: John the Baptist", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The “forerunner of our Lord.” We have but fragmentary and imperfect accounts of him in the Gospels. He was of priestly descent. His father, Zacharias, was a priest of the course of Abia (1 Chr. 24:10)"}, {"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_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"}]}