{"query": "Easton: Silas", "count": 17, "results": [{"id": "card_n_8be3e722233b", "title": "Easton: Silas", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Wood, a prominent member of the church at Jerusalem; also called Silvanus. He and Judas, surnamed Barsabas, were chosen by the church there to accompany Paul and Barnabas on their return to Antioch fr"}, {"id": "card_n_06a754277270", "title": "Easton: Philippi", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Formerly Crenides, “the fountain,” the capital of the province of Macedonia. It stood near the head of the Sea, about 8 miles north-west of Kavalla. It is now a ruined village, called Philibedjik"}, {"id": "card_n_f8f564e4e8ed", "title": "Easton: Amphipolis", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "City on both sides, a Macedonian city, a great Roman military station, through which Paul and Silas passed on their way from Philippi to Thessalonica, a distance of 33 Roman miles from Philippi (Acts "}, {"id": "card_c_581df967fd91", "title": "Easton: Silas cites Acts", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Cites Acts 15:22; Acts 16:19 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_a9f44d9efd2b", "title": "Easton: Jason", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "He that will cure, the host of Paul and Silas in Thessalonica. The Jews assaulted his house in order to seize Paul, but failing to find him, they dragged Jason before the ruler of the city (Acts 17:5-"}, {"id": "card_c_c6e0782608e3", "title": "Easton: Silas references Antioch", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Antioch (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_17d102d3a7e5", "title": "Easton: Silas references Barnabas", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Barnabas (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_e17d257ade56", "title": "Easton: Silas references Barsabas", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Barsabas (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_a7e8ba59aeca", "title": "Easton: Silas 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_e7ce312ca72a", "title": "Easton: Silas references Judas", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Judas (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_9bfb0140e283", "title": "Easton: Silas references Paul", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Paul (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_ec6faefc8d46", "title": "Easton: Berea", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A city of Macedonia to which Paul with Silas and Timotheus went when persecuted at Thessalonica (Acts 17:10, 13), and from which also he was compelled to withdraw, when he fled to the sea-coast and th"}, {"id": "card_n_e8640c97dfb9", "title": "Easton: Iconium", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The capital of ancient Lycaonia. It was first visited by Paul and Barnabas from Antioch-in-Pisidia during the apostle’s first missionary journey (Acts 13:50, 51). Here they were persecuted by the Jews"}, {"id": "card_n_8bbd2c031784", "title": "Easton: Earthquake", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mentioned among the extraordinary phenomena of Palestine (Ps. 18:7; comp. Hab. 3:6; Nah. 1:5; Isa. 5:25). The first earthquake in Palestine of which we have any record happened in the reign of Ahab (1"}, {"id": "card_n_8c5e13cb9935", "title": "Easton: Timothy", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Honouring God, a young disciple who was Paul’s companion in many of his journeyings. His mother, Eunice, and his grandmother, Lois, are mentioned as eminent for their piety (2 Tim. 1:5). We know nothi"}, {"id": "card_n_35cbbc002896", "title": "Easton: Hebrews, Epistle to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Its canonicity. All the results of critical and historical research to which this epistle has been specially subjected abundantly vindicate its right to a place in the New Testament canon among t"}, {"id": "card_n_114f779f9d18", "title": "Easton: Thessalonica", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A large and populous city on the Thermaic bay. It was the capital of one of the four Roman districts of Macedonia, and was ruled by a praetor. It was named after Thessalonica, the wife of Cassander, w"}]}