{"query": "Zacchaeus the Tax Collector", "count": 17, "results": [{"id": "card_n_e749d7800ae0", "title": "Zacchaeus the Tax Collector", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Wealthy chief publican; climbs the sycamore to see; Jesus calls him by name; restitution offered fourfold beyond the law's requirement; salvation today.\n\nFailure mode: Wealth gained by complicity with"}, {"id": "card_n_dfd15e83af3f", "title": "Easton: Tribute", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A tax imposed by a king on his subjects (2 Sam. 20:24; 1 Kings 4:6; Rom. 13:6). In Matt. 17:24-27 the word denotes the temple rate (the “didrachma,” the “half-shekel,” as rendered by the R.V.) which w"}, {"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_2a0709414d64", "title": "Easton: Taxes", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "First mentioned in the command (Ex. 30:11-16) that every Jew from twenty years and upward should pay an annual tax of “half a shekel for an offering to the Lord.” This enactment was faithfully observe"}, {"id": "card_n_4a4852ad9a9e", "title": "Easton: Custom", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A tax imposed by the Romans. The tax-gatherers were termed publicans (q.v.), who had their stations at the gates of cities, and in the public highways, and at the place set apart for that purpose, cal"}, {"id": "card_n_61809df7d3f6", "title": "Sermon on the Mount §som_09_love_your_enemies: \"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor, and hate you...", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy. ' But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those "}, {"id": "card_c_af21f1a78944", "title": "Easton: Zacchaeus cites Luke", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cites Luke 19:1; Luke 19:12 — a chapter:verse reference found in the card text."}, {"id": "card_n_d7a79e60c458", "title": "Easton: Asaph", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Convener, or collector. (1.) A Levite; one of the leaders of David’s choir (1 Chr. 6:39). Psalms 50 and 73-83 inclusive are attributed to him. He is mentioned along with David as skilled in music, and"}, {"id": "card_c_40784be34bd1", "title": "Easton: Zacchaeus references Jericho", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Jericho (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_d5f8f8e49c98", "title": "Easton: Zacchaeus 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_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_071a7af4a84a", "title": "Easton: Bible", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Bible, the English form of the Greek name Biblia, meaning “books,” the name which in the fifth century began to be given to the entire collection of sacred books, the “Library of Divine Revelation.” T"}, {"id": "card_n_f0a1c95e9029", "title": "Easton: Sycamore", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "More properly sycomore (Heb. shikmoth and shikmim, Gr. sycomoros), a tree which in its general character resembles the fig-tree, while its leaves resemble those of the mulberry; hence it is called the"}, {"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_7ecfc86402fe", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_04_03: The Voice of the Disciple Behold I come unto Thee, O Lord, that I may be bles...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The Voice of the Disciple Behold I come unto Thee, O Lord, that I may be blessed through Thy gift, and be made joyful in Thy holy feast which Thou, O God, of Thy goodness hast prepared for the poor.(1"}, {"id": "card_n_f1c2cf8a54d5", "title": "A parable — Worry what if", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A woman lay awake and ran every path her child might walk for a thousand miles. By morning she had aged a year, and the child had walked one mile, and the road had been gentle. She kissed him goodbye "}, {"id": "card_n_3527e5d13060", "title": "Luke 15", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.\n2. The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”\n3. He told them this"}]}