Characters & Episodes in Luke
Swipe chapter-by-chapter across Luke (24 chapters total).
Luke 1
David
The shepherd boy who felled Goliath with a sling, hid with 400 outlaws in the Cave of Adullam, and became Israel's anointed warrior-king — "a man after God's own heart" whose line leads to Jesus.
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The 'beloved physician' and historian of the Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts — who remained alone by Paul's side in his final Roman dungeon and requested that Timothy bring the restored John Mark.
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The virgin of Nazareth who answered Gabriel 'Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word,' bore the Son of God in Bethlehem, stood at the foot of the cross, and prayed with the 120 in the Upper Room.
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Jesus Christ
The eternal Son of God and promised Messiah — who calmed the Galilean storm, washed His disciples' feet, bore our judgment on the cross, rose as Firstfruits, and returns on a white horse as King of Kings.
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Righteous carpenter of Nazareth and royal heir of David — who obeyed the angel of the Lord, took Mary as his wife, named the child Jesus, and conferred the legal throne right of David upon the Messiah.
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The virgin of Nazareth who answered Gabriel 'Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word,' bore the Son of God in Bethlehem, stood at the foot of the cross, and prayed with the 120 in the Upper Room.
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Bathsheba
Daughter of Eliam, widow of Uriah the Hittite, and queen mother of King Solomon — through whom God redeemed a tragic royal failure into the Messianic line of Christ.
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Son of Boaz and Ruth whose birth in Bethlehem restored Naomi's empty arms and made him grandfather to King David in the Messianic lineage.
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Son of Hezron and father of Amminadab in the royal genealogy linking Judah in Egypt to the Exodus generation.
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Firstborn son of captive King Jeconiah in Babylon and father of Zerubbabel, carrying the royal promise through the seventy-year exile.
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Jesus Christ
The eternal Son of God and promised Messiah — who calmed the Galilean storm, washed His disciples' feet, bore our judgment on the cross, rose as Firstfruits, and returns on a white horse as King of Kings.
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Matthew (Levi)
The despised Capernaum tax collector who left everything at Jesus' two-word call ('Follow me') and threw a great feast in his house where forgiven outcasts tasted the new wine of the Kingdom.
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The Pharisees
The rigid religious traditionalists in Luke 5 who grumbled outside Levi's banquet demanding why Jesus' disciples feasted instead of fasting — pictured by Christ as sun-hardened old wineskins that burst under the pressure of new wine.
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The Wine Steward (Vintner)
The Galilean winemaker in Jesus' parable of Luke 5:37–38 who pours fermenting new wine into fresh, oil-conditioned goatskins so both the wine and the vessel are preserved.
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Galilean master fisherman and father of the apostles James and John, whose sons left him in the boat with the hired servants when Jesus called them.
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Luke 10
Martha of Bethany
Older sister of Lazarus and Mary in Bethany who confessed Jesus as 'the Christ, the Son of God,' warned of the four-day stench at the tomb, and helped unbind her resurrected brother.
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Mary of Bethany
Devoted sister of Martha and Lazarus who sat at Jesus' feet, wept before the Bethany tomb where Jesus Himself wept, and anointed the Lord's feet with costly nard, wiping them with her hair.
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