{"query": "A parable — Returning to first", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_ad1729369430", "title": "A parable — Returning to first", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man returned to the field of his youth. The well he had drunk from was still there but the path was overgrown. He cleared the path himself and drank. The water tasted the same. He had not lost the w"}, {"id": "card_n_e9423db7082b", "title": "A parable — Competition brother", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Two disciples ran toward the same tomb. One arrived first but waited; the other arrived later and went in. The first did not boast of the running; the second did not boast of the entering. Years later"}, {"id": "card_n_5b1b498f6ae0", "title": "A parable — Silence better", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man in the council never spoke first. When his turn came, he had heard everyone and the matter was clearer. Those who had spoken first had often spoken twice — once to argue, and once to retract. He"}, {"id": "card_n_90ab16a347bd", "title": "A parable — Suffering grief", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "When his friend died, the Lord did not say, 'do not mourn, for I will raise him.' He wept first. He raised him afterward. The tears were not a failure of faith — they were faith making room for love.\n"}, {"id": "card_n_653e4ac3ff00", "title": "A parable — Fear of god", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A young man asked an elder, 'Where does wisdom begin?' The elder said, 'At the door of the only one larger than your question.' The young man went to that door and knelt. He did not ask first; he wait"}, {"id": "card_n_6f8626f8a063", "title": "A parable — Marathon", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A young runner sprinted from the first mile, and the crowd cheered him. By the tenth mile he walked. By the fifteenth he sat. An older runner passed him at a pace the crowd had laughed at, and finishe"}, {"id": "card_n_c8d9efdb47ac", "title": "A parable — Addiction chain", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man wore a small chain around his wrist. It was light at first and he did not notice. Each year he added a link to it himself, because the weight was familiar. By the time he wished to remove it, th"}, {"id": "card_n_4543b0454ea6", "title": "A parable — Envy neighbor", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A woman counted her neighbor's blessings each morning and her own each evening. By month's end she could recite her neighbor's list and had forgotten her own. 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A second man stood at the back and would not lift his eyes, and only said, God be m"}, {"id": "card_n_018641dc4cd7", "title": "Easton: First-born, Redemption of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "From the beginning the office of the priesthood in each family belonged to the eldest son. But when the extensive plan of sacrificial worship was introduced, requiring a company of men to be exclusive"}, {"id": "card_n_3eac20d6d4c5", "title": "Easton: First-fruits", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The first-fruits of the ground were offered unto God just as the first-born of man and animals. The law required, (1.) That on the morrow after the Passover Sabbath a sheaf of new corn should be waved"}, {"id": "card_n_12032d50c8df", "title": "Easton: Birthright", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) This word denotes the special privileges and advantages belonging to the first-born son among the Jews. 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That which is most proper unto a man, is, first, to be kindly affected towards them that are of the same kind and nature as he i"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_matthew_9_27", "title": "Matthew Henry on Matthew 9:27", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Matthew 9:27 — In these verses we have an account of two more miracles wrought together by our Saviour.\nI. The giving of sight to two blind men, Mat 9:27-31. Christ is the Fountain of light as well"}, {"id": "card_n_8811a78673eb", "title": "1 Corinthians 15", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,\n2. by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached"}, {"id": "card_n_8cdaf0bd28ed", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §79: INTER.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "INTER. 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