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Who is the righteous woman whom God enabled to conceive John the Baptist despite her barrenness? She was a relative of the Virgin Mary.

Elizabeth

100

Which parable of Jesus tells the story of compassion shown to a man beaten by robbers—while others pass by—and is held up as an example of true neighborly love?

The Good Samaritan

100

What is the term for a biblical hymn or song of praise, not one of the Psalms, that is often sung or chanted in religious services and includes the four songs from Luke's nativity story?

Canticle

100

As a result of the Roman census, Jesus was born in the town of __________________.

Bethlehem

100

The author of the Gospel of Luke also wrote another book in the New Testament known as ____________. 

Acts of the Apostles

200

According to the Gospel of Luke, which Roman emperor issued the decree for a census that required Joseph and Mary to travel while Mary was pregnant? 

Caesar Augustus

200

In Jesus’ parable about the rich man in the Gospel of Luke, what is the name of the poor man who suffers in life but is comforted in the afterlife in the "Bosom of Abraham"?

Lazarus

200

In the Gospel of Luke, who praises God in the hymn known as the Magnificat? It begins, "My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has looked on the humble estate of his servant. For behold, from now on all generations will call me blessed"

Mary

200

Toward the end of the Gospel of Luke, two of Jesus’ followers encounter Him after His resurrection on the _______________, though they do not recognize Him at first.

Road to Emmaus

200

The genealogy of Jesus found in the Gospel of Luke traces His lineage back to what figure in the Old Testament? 

Adam

300

What is the name of the angel that speaks to Mary concerning the birth of Jesus?

Gabriel

300

Similar in theme to Matthew’s "Sermon on the Mount," the Gospel of Luke has Jesus teaching a crowd a collection of ethical instructions, including a series of beatitudes and woes. It is known as the Sermon on the ____________.

Plain

300

In Luke’s account of Jesus’ birth, what is the traditional name of the hymn sung by the angels proclaiming, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased”?

Gloria

300

In the the New Testament, this Greek term is sometimes used to describe the realm of the dead. It's meaning evolved in the New Testament, that after Jesus's resurrection the righteous no longer descended to ___________, but to an eternal state in the presence of God.

Hades

300

In a story unique to the Gospel of Luke, Jesus visits the home of two sisters. While one sister named Mary sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to his teaching, the other sister ___________ was distracted with serving. Jesus tells her, "you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary."

Martha

400

In Luke’s account of Jesus’ presentation in the temple in Ch.2, who is the righteous and devout man who blesses the child Jesus and proclaims the hymn known as the Nunc Dimittis? It begins"Lord, now you are letting your servant depart in peace..."

Simeon

400

In Luke 15, Jesus tells three parables about things that are lost — "the Lost Sheep," "the Lost Coin," and "_______________," a parable that focuses on a wayward child who returns to his loving father.

The Prodigal Son

400

John the Baptist's father, ________, was filled with the Holy Spirit after the birth of his son, and sang a prophecy known as the Benedictus, which begins, "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David..."

Zechariah

400

The Hebrew term in the Old Testament for the general realm of the dead, a place often described as a gloomy underworld where the spirits of all the dead, righteous and unrighteous, descended (even the faithful like Jacob, David, etc).

Sheol

400

In Ch.4 of Luke, Jesus inaugurates the start of his public ministry while in the synagogue of Nazareth by reading from the scroll of ____________.

Isaiah

500

In Ch. 19 of the Gospel of Luke, who is the wealthy tax collector who climbs a sycamore tree in order to see Jesus as He passes through Jericho?

Zacchaeus

500

In the Gospel of Luke, which ruler does Jesus uniquely appear before during His trial (in addition to the Sanhedrin and Pontius Pilate), a narrative detail not found in the other Synoptic Gospels?

Herod Antipas

500

What is the theological term for the event in which the angel appears to Mary to announce that she will conceive and bear Jesus?

Annunciation

500

What Greek term, used 12 times in the New Testament, refers to the final place of punishment for the wicked, references the “Valley of Hinnom” outside Jerusalem, and is used by Jesus as a metaphor for eternal fire and judgment?

Gehenna

500

What is the name of the hypothetical ancient source that is believed to be a collection of sayings and teachings of Jesus. New Testament scholars believe it was an independent and shared source for the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, and it's used to account for those sayings common to both of those gospels, but not found in Mark (i.e. the "Two Source Hypothesis")

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