{"query": "The Pharisee and the Publican", "count": 11, "results": [{"id": "card_n_f9baa8b824f1", "title": "The Pharisee and the Publican", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Two go up to pray; one with himself recounts his virtues and despises the other; one beats his breast and says God be merciful to me a sinner; the second goes home justified.\n\nFailure mode: Prayer tha"}, {"id": "card_n_1a8808bd0681", "title": "Easton: Publican", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One who farmed the taxes (e.g., Zacchaeus, Luke 19:2) to be levied from a town or district, and thus undertook to pay to the supreme government a certain amount. In order to collect the taxes, the pub"}, {"id": "card_n_f434f3cdb669", "title": "Easton: Matthew", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Gift of God, a common Jewish name after the Exile. He was the son of Alphaeus, and was a publican or tax-gatherer at Capernaum. On one occasion Jesus, coming up from the side of the lake, passed the c"}, {"id": "card_n_9aa445f45094", "title": "Easton: Gamaliel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Reward of God. (1.) A chief of the tribe of Manasseh at the census at Sinai (Num. 1:10; 2:20; 7:54, 59). (2.) The son of rabbi Simeon, and grandson of the famous rabbi Hillel. He was a Pharisse, and t"}, {"id": "card_n_6acc64eb6306", "title": "Easton: Zacchaeus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Pure, a superintendant of customs; a chief tax-gather (publicanus) at Jericho (Luke 19:1-10). “The collection of customs at Jericho, which at this time produced and exported a considerable quantity of"}, {"id": "card_n_2fc2a8892c45", "title": "Philippians 3", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe.\n2. Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the fa"}, {"id": "card_n_06aa0f5f9391", "title": "Easton: Stephen", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the seven deacons, who became a preacher of the gospel. He was the first Christian martyr. His personal character and history are recorded in Acts 6. “He fell asleep” with a prayer for his pers"}, {"id": "card_n_02ac6f811c16", "title": "Easton: Paul", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "=Saul (q.v.) was born about the same time as our Lord. His circumcision-name was Saul, and probably the name Paul was also given to him in infancy “for use in the Gentile world,” as “Saul” would be hi"}, {"id": "card_n_660ae60c5c82", "title": "Easton: Pharisees", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Separatists (Heb. persahin, from parash, “to separate”). They were probably the successors of the Assideans (i.e., the “pious”), a party that originated in the time of Antiochus Epiphanes in revolt ag"}, {"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_c_92994595ab00", "title": "Easton: Publican cites Luke", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites Luke 19:2; Luke 7:34 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}]}