{"query": "Easton: Matthew, Gospel according to", "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_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_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_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_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_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_n_88255c9e83e6", "title": "Easton: Proportion of faith", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Rom. 12:6). Paul says here that each one was to exercise his gift of prophecy, i.e., of teaching, “according to the proportion of faith.” The meaning is, that the utterances of the “prophet” were not"}, {"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_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_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_n_0ea6a1edcda4", "title": "Easton: Call", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) To cry for help, hence to pray (Gen. 4:26). Thus men are said to “call upon the name of the Lord” (Acts 2:21; 7:59; 9:14; Rom. 10:12; 1 Cor. 1:2). (2.) God calls with respect to men when he desig"}, {"id": "card_c_0807445c0bff", "title": "Easton: Matthew, Gospel according to references David", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions David (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_c_1dad41f3af6e", "title": "Easton: Matthew, Gospel according to references Galilee", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Galilee (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_9ff8c36779f9", "title": "Easton: Matthew, Gospel according to 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_1261e4afeb42", "title": "Easton: Matthew, Gospel according to references Jesus", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Jesus (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_c_b5fbafda1b69", "title": "Easton: Matthew, Gospel according to references Nazareth", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Nazareth (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_b0cbeb93a991", "title": "Easton: Matthew, Gospel according to 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_de342130506b", "title": "Easton: Dispensation", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gr. oikonomia, “management,” “economy”). (1.) The method or scheme according to which God carries out his purposes towards men is called a dispensation. There are usually reckoned three dispensations"}, {"id": "card_c_376748bcd1b1", "title": "Easton: Matthew, Gospel according to references John the Baptist", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions John the Baptist (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_n_5b73aa3dee52", "title": "Easton: Washing", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Mark 7:1-9). The Jews, like other Orientals, used their fingers when taking food, and therefore washed their hands before doing so, for the sake of cleanliness. Here the reference is to the ablutions"}]}