{"query": "Easton: Parable", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_c84135483b63", "title": "Easton: Parable", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gr. parabole), a placing beside; a comparison; equivalent to the Heb. mashal, a similitude. In the Old Testament this is used to denote (1) a proverb (1 Sam. 10:12; 24:13; 2 Chr. 7:20), (2) a prophet", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_harmony_h040", "title": "Parable of the Sower and the parables of the kingdom (3 of 4 gospels)", "shelf": "scripture", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Parable of the Sower and the parables of the kingdom — Galilean Ministry. Recorded by 3 of the four gospels: Matthew 13:1-53; Mark 4:1-34; Luke 8:4-18. Read them side by side at /harmony.html; the tex", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "World English Bible (public domain) + the standard study tables", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_c_e2613a2d804d", "title": "Devotional: Jiu-Jitsu and Faith: A Parable ↔ Devotional: The Threat of Self", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Faith, like jiu-jitsu, is not about overpowering others but about learning control — over self, over fear, over pride.  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified.", "authority_tier": "engine_derived", "source": "Concordance miner — 2026-07-11", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_d346f6fb05a9", "title": "A parable — Grace to others", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "An elder brother stayed in the field while the younger spent the inheritance and returned. The father killed the calf for the younger and threw a feast. The elder stood outside, refusing to enter. The", "authority_tier": "operator", "source": "Narrow Highway — original parable", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_c_c706e67544a3", "title": "Devotional: Jiu-Jitsu and Faith: A Parable ↔ Devotional: Prayer: Surrender to God’s Will", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Each roll is a chance to die to self, to surrender, and to grow stronger in spirit.  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified.", "authority_tier": "engine_derived", "source": "Concordance miner — 2026-07-11", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_c_11bcf3a904c0", "title": "Devotional: Jiu-Jitsu and Faith: A Parable ↔ Easton: Humility", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "In both, humility is essential.  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified.", "authority_tier": "engine_derived", "source": "Concordance miner — 2026-07-11", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_1140c9fe707a", "title": "A parable — Disability strength", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A potter set down two vessels: one whole, one cracked. The whole carried water without leaking; the cracked one watered the path it walked. By summer the path beside the cracked vessel was lined with ", "authority_tier": "operator", "source": "Narrow Highway — original parable", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_c_ba9c6022034e", "title": "A parable — Marathon ↔ 2 Timothy 4:7", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "FLOOR — protect the finish. The first mile's glory is a debt the last mile pays.  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified.", "authority_tier": "engine_derived", "source": "Concordance miner — 2026-07-11", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_9c78781d718f", "title": "A parable — Carnot", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "An engineer believed he could build a machine that took less and gave more. He built and rebuilt for many years. The machine he made was very good, but it could never give back more than was given. He", "authority_tier": "operator", "source": "Narrow Highway — original parable", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_effe4bf87816", "title": "A parable — Envy", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man kept a ledger of his neighbor's blessings. The ledger grew thick. His neighbor's house, his neighbor's wife, his neighbor's ox, his neighbor's days. He carried the ledger everywhere. He could no", "authority_tier": "operator", "source": "Narrow Highway — original parable", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_98fd35846353", "title": "John 10", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. “Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber.\n2. But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of th", "authority_tier": "scripture", "source": "World English Bible · John 10", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_6f8626f8a063", "title": "A parable — Marathon", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A young runner sprinted from the first mile, and the crowd cheered him. By the tenth mile he walked. By the fifteenth he sat. An older runner passed him at a pace the crowd had laughed at, and finishe", "authority_tier": "operator", "source": "Narrow Highway — original parable", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_0868417efbfa", "title": "A parable — Temptation door b", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A traveler entered a room with one door behind and one door ahead. The room grew dim; he could not tell which door he had come through. 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Th", "authority_tier": "operator", "source": "Narrow Highway — original parable", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_0c29d0e6bba0", "title": "A parable — Calling finding", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A prophet stood on a mountain and waited for God in the wind. The wind came and was loud, but God was not in it. Then earthquake, then fire — and God was in neither. After all of that, a still small v", "authority_tier": "operator", "source": "Narrow Highway — original parable", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_41c5287a97b2", "title": "A parable — Argue brother", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Two brothers built a wall together. One laid the stones to the left, the other to the right, and each thought the other was crooked. They never asked the third brother — the one who could see both sid", "authority_tier": "operator", "source": "Narrow Highway — original parable", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_7fc1166cbd90", "title": "A parable — Suffering betrayal", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The psalmist wrote: it was not an enemy who reproached me — I could have borne that. It was you, my equal, my companion. The wound from a friend's hand goes deeper than the sword's, because the friend", "authority_tier": "operator", "source": "Narrow Highway — original parable", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_c98e4733373b", "title": "A parable — Tongue", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth. The tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity, set on fire of hell. One small spark in a dry forest in summer. The forest was a hundred years growing. 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