{"query": "Easton: Pharisees", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_63d448446014", "title": "Easton: Mint", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gr. heduosmon, i.e., “having a sweet smell”), one of the garden herbs of which the Pharisees paid tithes (Matt. 23:23; Luke 11:42). It belongs to the labiate family of plants. The species most common"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_john_9_13", "title": "Matthew Henry on John 9:13", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On John 9:13 — One would have expected that such a miracle as Christ wrought upon the blind man would have settled his reputation, and silenced and shamed all opposition, but it had the contrary effec"}, {"id": "card_n_082360c0950b", "title": "Easton: Ox", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Heb. bakar, “cattle;” “neat cattle”, (Gen. 12:16; 34:28; Job 1:3, 14; 42:12, etc.); not to be muzzled when treading the corn (Deut. 25:4). Referred to by our Lord in his reproof to the Pharisees (Luke"}, {"id": "card_n_846f4a2a582a", "title": "Easton: Essenes", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A Jewish mystical sect somewhat resembling the Pharisees. They affected great purity. They originated about B.C. 100, and disappeared from history after the destruction of Jerusalem. They are not dire"}, {"id": "card_n_3dd7aa5595a0", "title": "Easton: Disciple", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A scholar, sometimes applied to the followers of John the Baptist (Matt. 9:14), and of the Pharisees (22:16), but principally to the followers of Christ. A disciple of Christ is one who (1) believes h"}, {"id": "card_n_c55e104b764d", "title": "Easton: Rue", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A garden herb (Ruta graveolens) which the Pharisees were careful to tithe (Luke 11:42), neglecting weightier matters. It is omitted in the parallel passage of Matt. 23:23. There are several species gr"}, {"id": "card_n_bc2b9a3178f7", "title": "Easton: Sect", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Gr. hairesis, usually rendered “heresy”, Acts 24:14; 1 Chr. 11:19; Gal. 5:20, etc.), meaning properly “a choice,” then “a chosen manner of life,” and then “a religious party,” as the “sect” of the Sa"}, {"id": "card_n_a62dc5079ad9", "title": "Easton: Hypocrite", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One who puts on a mask and feigns himself to be what he is not; a dissembler in religion. Our Lord severely rebuked the scribes and Pharisees for their hypocrisy (Matt. 6:2, 5, 16). “The hypocrite’s h"}, {"id": "card_src_book_2771", "title": "The Island Pharisees — John Galsworthy", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Island Pharisees, by John Galsworthy. Subjects: London (England) -- Fiction; England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; Upper class -- England -- Fiction. Read the full text (public domain): h"}, {"id": "card_n_3cfe5051d3f2", "title": "Easton: Stoics", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A sect of Greek philosophers at Athens, so called from the Greek word stoa i.e., a “porch” or “portico,” where they have been called “the Pharisees of Greek paganism.” The founder of the Stoics was Ze"}, {"id": "card_src_book_34684", "title": "English Pharisees, French Crocodiles, and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters — Max O'Rell", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "English Pharisees, French Crocodiles, and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters, by Max O'Rell. Subjects: National characteristics, English; National characteristics, French. Read the full text (publi"}, {"id": "card_n_2f61d840e647", "title": "Easton: Doctor", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Luke 2:46; 5:17; Acts 5:34), a teacher. The Jewish doctors taught and disputed in synagogues, or wherever they could find an audience. Their disciples were allowed to propose to them questions. They "}, {"id": "card_n_6dc7f2f388f0", "title": "Easton: Cummin", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. kammon; i.e., a “condiment”), the fruit or seed of an umbelliferous plant, the Cuminum sativum, still extensively cultivated in the East. Its fruit is mentioned in Isa. 28:25, 27. In the New Tes"}, {"id": "card_harmony_h079", "title": "Woes to the scribes and Pharisees; the widow's mite (3 of 4 gospels)", "shelf": "scripture", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Woes to the scribes and Pharisees; the widow's mite — Passion Week. Recorded by 3 of the four gospels: Matthew 23:1-39; Mark 12:38-44; Luke 20:45-21:4. Read them side by side at /harmony.html; the tex"}, {"id": "card_n_17c6a378ab82", "title": "Easton: Corban", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A Hebrew word adopted into the Greek of the New Testament and left untranslated. It occurs only once (Mark 7:11). It means a gift or offering consecrated to God. Anything over which this word was once"}, {"id": "card_n_117d9c5e5ba9", "title": "Easton: Torches", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On the night of his betrayal, when our Lord was in the garden of Gethsemane, Judas, “having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and t"}, {"id": "card_n_20db105b14a4", "title": "Easton: Alms", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Not found in the Old Testament, but repeatedly in the New. The Mosaic legislation (Lev. 25:35; Deut. 15:7) tended to promote a spirit of charity, and to prevent the occurrence of destitution among the"}, {"id": "card_n_25e75e3d7689", "title": "Easton: Anise", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This word is found only in Matt. 23:23. It is the plant commonly known by the name of dill, the Peucedanum graveolens of the botanist. This name dill is derived from a Norse word which means to soothe"}, {"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"}]}