{"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_src_comm_luke_12_41", "title": "Matthew Henry on Luke 12:41", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Luke 12:41 — Here is, I. Peter's question, which he put to Christ upon occasion of the foregoing parable (Luk 12:41): \"Lord, speakest thou this parable to us that are thy constant followers, to us "}, {"id": "card_n_0f0d0bd1e226", "title": "A parable — Money giving b", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A farmer had two pockets. From the first he gave; into the second he stored. The first pocket emptied; the second filled. He could not understand why the first felt warmer than the second, but it did."}, {"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_1ccb13110ae0", "title": "A parable — Aging field", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A farmer walked his field at evening and saw the rows he had not planted, and the rows planted and not yet harvested. The light was leaving. He had time to harvest some, and he had time to plant nothi"}, {"id": "card_n_b031c4b9ef92", "title": "A parable — Anger slow", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A wise man taught: be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. The young men reversed the order each day, and each day they were sorry. The old man said nothing about it. He had learned the order "}, {"id": "card_src_word_returning", "title": "returning", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "returning: (adjective) tending to return to an earlier state — syn: reverting · (adjective) tending to be turned back — syn: returning(a), reversive"}, {"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_23ec117624fc", "title": "A parable — Loaded question", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man asked his neighbor: 'When did you stop cheating your workers?' His neighbor opened his mouth to answer, then closed it. To answer 'yesterday' was to confess. To answer 'never' was to confess dif"}, {"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_1e4b38fc12d4", "title": "A parable — Hope false", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The prophet wrote: I know the plans I have for you, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. The exiles took this to mean tomorrow. It was meant for seventy years later. Th"}, {"id": "card_n_8b6256f0ebba", "title": "A parable — Decision two roads", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man stood at the fork of two roads with no map. He sat down to think and a thousand reasons came, half for each road. After many hours he saw he was no closer to choosing. Then he remembered the thi"}, {"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_4b288385a28c", "title": "A parable — Boundary pearls", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man carried pearls and gave one to everyone he met. The wise received them and kept them safe. The unwise dropped them and walked on. Some trampled them under foot. The man had only so many pearls; "}, {"id": "card_n_7f0e373db3d6", "title": "A parable — No cloning", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A singer had a voice no one could copy. Many tried to learn it. Those who learned the song were not the singer; those who imitated the singer broke their own voice. The voice could be heard, and given"}, {"id": "card_n_d346f6fb05a9", "title": "A parable — Grace to others", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "An elder brother stayed in the field while the younger spent the inheritance and returned. The father killed the calf for the younger and threw a feast. The elder stood outside, refusing to enter. The"}, {"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. The garden she walked through every day h"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_luke_15_11", "title": "Matthew Henry on Luke 15:11", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Luke 15:11 — We have here the parable of the prodigal son, the scope of which is the same with those before, to show how pleasing to God the conversion of sinners is, of great sinners, and how read"}]}