{"query": "The Meal Before the Mission", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_43ce6f5292a1", "title": "The Meal Before the Mission", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine.\n\nThree words. No agenda attached, no performance required first. The disciples had just worked through the night, failed, then succeeded at someone else's directi"}, {"id": "card_c_5e9ce88a689a", "title": "The Meal Before the Mission ↔ The Invitation Requires Nothing First", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "No agenda attached, no performance required first.  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"id": "card_c_c8ebec8ef9c4", "title": "The Meal Before the Mission ↔ The Fire Was Already Lit", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "He had already built the fire. He had already laid the fish. He said, Come and dine.  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"id": "card_src_book_10713", "title": "The Bullitt Mission to Russia Testimony before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, of William C. Bullitt — William C. (William Christian) Bullitt", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Bullitt Mission to Russia Testimony before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, of William C. Bullitt, by William C. (William Christian) Bullitt. Subjects: Paris Peace Confere"}, {"id": "card_c_7bd850e59fb6", "title": "The Fire Was Already Lit ↔ The Meal Before the Mission", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "A charcoal fire was burning. Fish were already on it. Bread was ready. He asked them to bring some of their catch — not because He needed it, but because participation matters to Him. The provision pr"}, {"id": "card_n_4f062674a2e5", "title": "Psalm 68 — Psalm 68", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "<<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. A song.>> Let God arise! Let his enemies be scattered! Let them who hate him also flee before him. As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts"}, {"id": "card_n_cf582aac7b6d", "title": "The Invitation Requires Nothing First", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine.\n\nThe disciples had just worked through the night without catching a thing. Then, at Jesus' word, the net filled. They hauled the catch ashore — and found that he "}, {"id": "card_n_e28196bff4c5", "title": "Easton: Marriage-feasts", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(John 2:1-11) “lasted usually for a whole week; but the cost of such prolonged rejoicing is very small in the East. The guests sit round the great bowl or bowls on the floor, the meal usually consisti"}, {"id": "card_n_ed8a06e8e6d9", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_019: For although we find no time before it, for wisdom was created before all thi...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For although we find no time before it, for wisdom was created before all things; not that Wisdom which is altogether equal and coeternal unto Thee, our God, His Father, and by Whom all things were cr"}, {"id": "card_n_a7302e4834d8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_009: And, lo!", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And, lo! my infancy died long since, and I live. But Thou, Lord, who for ever livest, and in whom nothing dies: for before the foundation of the worlds, and before all that can be called \"before,\" Tho"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_mark_11_27", "title": "Matthew Henry on Mark 11:27", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Mark 11:27 — We have here Christ examined by the great Sanhedrim concerning his authority; for they claimed a power to call prophets to an account concerning their mission. They came to him when he"}, {"id": "card_n_21c47ce5d677", "title": "Easton: Hanging", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(as a punishment), a mark of infamy inflicted on the dead bodies of criminals (Deut. 21:23) rather than our modern mode of punishment. 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