Luke
Truly I tell you today..
Glossary
Glossary/Measures
It's Greek to me!
100

True or False:  Luke was one of the 12 apostles.

What is False?

100

True or False:  The earliest available manuscripts of the Christian Greek Scriptures did not contain punctuation as used in modern languages today.

What is true?

100

A man of mature age, but in the Scriptures, means one who primarily holds a position of authority and responsibility in a community or a nation. Greek word is presbyteros when it refers to those responsible for taking the lead in the congregation.

What is elder/older man?

100

A liquid measure that is estimated to equal about 22L (5.81 gal).   Calgon take me away!

What is a bath?

100

paradeisos

What is Paradise?

200

Luke wrote his gospel in this city, the name means "Belonging to Caesar"

What is Caesarea?

200

In order to make Jesus words understood correctly and harmonize with the rest of the scriptures, a comma should appear before or after "today".

What is after?

200

Angels of high rank having special duties.  They were placed to guard the way to the garden of Eden.

What are cherubs?

200

A dry measure of 1`.22 L (1.11 dry quart).  Hey taxi!

What is a cab?

200

kranion

What is skull?

300

IN Luke's account, Jesus told the women to stop weeping for him and that days would come when this type of woman would be happy.

What is barren?

300

Jesus was resurrected, no on the day he died, but on the ______ day after his death, showing the criminal could not be with Jesus in Paradise on the same day Jesus spoke to him.

What is third?

300

A god of the Philistines.  Etymology is uncertain, but some scholars associate it with the Hebrew word dagh (fish). 

What is Dagon?

300

A dry and a liquid measure.  It equaled 220 L (58.1 gal/200 dry quart)

What is a cor?

300

leistes

What is robbers?

400

Jesus ascended to heaven ____ days after his resurrection, which also helps determine where the comma should be placed regarding the word "today".

What is 40?

400

A designation applied to Satn, the prince or ruler of the demons.  Possibly an alteration of Baal-zebub, the Baal worshipped by the Philistines at Ekron.

What is Beelzebub?

400

A linear measure roughly the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger.  A larger one was one handbreadth longer, about 51.8cm (20.4 in).

What is a cubit?

400

epixylou

What is "On a stake or tree"?

500

True or False:  Jesus use of the word today is idiomatic and calls attention to the time of the criminal's being in Paradise.

What is false? ( It calls attention to the time at which the promise was made).

500

After the Babylonian exile, the nae of the 5th month of the Jewish sacred calendar and the 11th month of the secular calendar, running from mid-July to mid-August. "6 pack"

What is Ab?

500

A dry measure capacity and the container itself, used for measuring grains, equal to a liquid bath measure, 22 L ( 20 dry quarts).

What is an ephah?

500

kremannymi

What is "to hang"?