{"query": "Nicodemus by Night", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_95995eb4c762", "title": "Nicodemus by Night", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Pharisee, ruler of the Jews; comes by night with respectful question; struggles with born again; later defends Jesus in the council; brings a hundred pound weight of spices to the burial.\n\nFailure mod"}, {"id": "card_n_b07ffebcebd6", "title": "John 3", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.\n2. He came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do thes"}, {"id": "card_n_7e99fc7b335a", "title": "Easton: Nicodemus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The people is victor, a Pharisee and a member of the Sanhedrin. He is first noticed as visiting Jesus by night (John 3:1-21) for the purpose of learning more of his doctrines, which our Lord then unfo"}, {"id": "card_n_f4ef05c141d7", "title": "Easton: Night-hawk", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. tahmas) occurs only in the list of unclean birds (Lev. 11:16; Deut. 14:15). This was supposed to be the night-jar (Caprimulgus), allied to the swifts. The Hebrew word is derived from a root mean"}, {"id": "card_n_1e6acbf52c16", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_024: But you, chosen generation, you weak things of the world, who have forsaken a...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But you, chosen generation, you weak things of the world, who have forsaken all, that ye may follow the Lord; go after Him, and confound the mighty; go after Him, ye beautiful feet, and shine ye in th"}, {"id": "card_n_62a3a9c2e539", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_030: I desire to know the force and nature of time, by which we measure the motion...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I desire to know the force and nature of time, by which we measure the motions of bodies, and say (for example) this motion is twice as long as that. For I ask, Seeing \"day\" denotes not the stay only "}, {"id": "card_n_33a36dc90f1d", "title": "1 Clement XXIV", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "resurrection._ Let us consider, beloved, how the Lord continually proves to us that there shall be a future resurrection, of which He has rendered the Lord Jesus Christ the first-fruits by raising Him"}, {"id": "card_n_39d02442bb0b", "title": "Easton: Dew", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "“There is no dew properly so called in Palestine, for there is no moisture in the hot summer air to be chilled into dew-drops by the coldness of the night. From May till October rain is unknown, the s"}, {"id": "card_n_adf5b85c9e3d", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §283: Neither could they, with all the skill they had, get again to the stile that night.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Neither could they, with all the skill they had, get again to the stile that night. Wherefore, at last, lighting under a little shelter, they sat down there until the daybreak; but, being weary, they "}, {"id": "card_n_2f05f5f9c92e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_033: Does not my soul most truly confess unto Thee, that I do measure times?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Does not my soul most truly confess unto Thee, that I do measure times? Do I then measure, O my God, and know not what I measure? I measure the motion of a body in time; and the time itself do I not m"}, {"id": "card_n_71357b4dd263", "title": "1 Clement XXVII", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "omnipotent and omniscient God._ Having then this hope, let our souls be bound to Him who is faithful in His promises, and just in His judgments. He who has commanded us not to lie, shall much more Him"}, {"id": "card_n_a6d2fa25ebc4", "title": "Nehemiah the Wall-Builder", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hears that Jerusalems walls are broken; weeps, fasts, prays, and asks the king; arrives, surveys at night, organizes by household; works with sword in one hand and trowel in the other; refuses to come"}, {"id": "card_n_6e02b63ee88d", "title": "Easton: Winnow", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Corn was winnowed, (1.) By being thrown up by a shovel against the wind. As a rule this was done in the evening or during the night, when the west wind from the sea was blowing, which was a moderate b"}, {"id": "card_n_21c014a862c2", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §260: This answer, thus made by this Mr.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This answer, thus made by this Mr. Money-love to Mr. By-ends's question, was highly applauded by them all; wherefore they concluded upon the whole, that it was most wholesome and advantageous. And bec"}, {"id": "card_n_2f813da02637", "title": "1 Clement XLV", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Ye are fond of contention, brethren, and full of zeal about things which do not pertain to salvation. Look carefully into the Scriptures, which are the true utterances of the Holy Spirit. Observe that"}, {"id": "card_n_2fcd81d6862d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_014: But as yet by faith and not by sight, for by hope we are saved; but hope that...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But as yet by faith and not by sight, for by hope we are saved; but hope that is seen, is not hope. As yet doth deep call unto deep, but now in the voice of Thy water-spouts. As yet doth he that saith"}, {"id": "card_n_122680f3a7ed", "title": "Easton: Belshazzar", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Bel protect the king!, the last of the kings of Babylon (Dan. 5:1). He was the son of Nabonidus by Nitocris, who was the daughter of Nebuchadnezzar and the widow of Nergal-sharezer. When still young h"}, {"id": "card_n_6fbf91a8242c", "title": "Easton: Mouse", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. ‘akhbar, “swift digger”), properly the dormouse, the field-mouse (1 Sam. 6:4). In Lev. 11:29, Isa. 66:17 this word is used generically, and includes the jerboa (Mus jaculus), rat, hamster (Cricet"}, {"id": "card_n_e8b47f718fb7", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_015: But why I went hence, and went thither, Thou knewest, O God, yet showedst it ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But why I went hence, and went thither, Thou knewest, O God, yet showedst it neither to me, nor to my mother, who grievously bewailed my journey, and followed me as far as the sea. But I deceived her,"}, {"id": "card_n_dfe230563b45", "title": "Mordecai at the Gate", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sits at the gate; uncovers the assassination plot; refuses to bow to Haman; condemned to the gallows Haman built; on a sleepless night the king reads the chronicles and Mordecai is honored; eventually"}]}