• Luke 1

  • Video Introduction to the Book of Luke

  • Gospel of Luke—Some Major Events

  • Approaching the Entrance to Herod’s Temple

  • Symmachus’ Greek Translation Containing the Hebrew Tetragrammaton

  • Writing Tablets

  • Luke 2

  • Caesar Augustus

  • Winter in Bethlehem

  • Jesus in the Manger

  • Turtledove and Pigeon

  • View of the Valley of Jezreel

  • Luke 3

  • Tiberius Caesar

  • Coin Made by Herod Antipas

  • The Wilderness

  • Sandals

  • Threshing Tools

  • Luke 4

  • The Wilderness of Judea, West of the Jordan River

  • The Wilderness

  • Battlement of the Temple

  • The Great Isaiah Scroll

  • Synagogue in Capernaum

  • Luke 5

  • Remains of a Galilean Fishing Boat

  • Fish of the Sea of Galilee

  • First-Century Fishing Boat

  • Luke 6

  • North Shore of the Sea of Galilee, Looking Northwest

  • Upper Fold of a Garment

  • Fig Tree, Grapevine, and Thornbush

  • Luke 7

  • Royal Houses

  • The Marketplace

  • Bone Flute

  • Alabaster Jar

  • Luke 8

  • Domestic Lampstand

  • First-Century Fishing Boat

  • Remains of a Galilean Fishing Boat

  • Cliffs on the Eastern Side of the Sea of Galilee

  • Jesus Heals a Woman

  • Luke 9

  • Staff and Food Pouch

  • Coin Made by Herod Antipas

  • Baskets

  • Mount Hermon

  • Mount Hermon As Seen From the Hula Valley Nature Reserve

  • Foxes’ Dens and Birds’ Nests

  • Plowing

  • Luke 10

  • Wolf

  • Staff and Food Pouch

  • Capernaum, Chorazin, and Bethsaida

  • The Road From Jerusalem to Jericho

  • From Olive to Oil

  • Luke 11

  • Scorpions

  • Domestic Lampstand

  • Rue

  • The Marketplace

  • Luke 12

  • Modern-Day Valley of Hinnom

  • Raven

  • Lilies of the Field

  • “Your Clothing Has Become Moth-Eaten”

  • Luke 13

  • Coin Made by Herod Antipas

  • A Hen Gathering Her Chicks

  • Luke 14

  • Prominent Places at Evening Meals

  • Salt on the Shore of the Dead Sea

  • Luke 15

  • The Shepherd and His Sheep

  • Carob Pods

  • Luke 16

  • Written Agreement Acknowledging a Debt

  • Purple Dyes

  • Luke 17

  • Upper and Lower Millstones

  • Black Mulberry Tree

  • Luke 19

  • Sycamore Tree

  • Bethphage, the Mount of Olives, and Jerusalem

  • Colt, or Young Donkey

  • Stones From the Temple Mount

  • Luke 20

  • The Front Seats in the Synagogue

  • Prominent Places at Evening Meals

  • Luke 21

  • The Treasury Chests and the Widow

  • Stones From the Temple Mount

  • Judea Capta Coin

  • Roman Sword

  • The Arch of Titus in Rome

  • Luke 22

  • Upper Room

  • Vine

  • The Sanhedrin

  • Luke 23

  • Nail in a Heel Bone

  • Tomb Chamber

  • Luke 24

  • Nail in a Heel Bone

The items shown in the illustrations and 3-D video footage in the Media Gallery are based on extensive research. However, they are artists’ renditions and, at times, depict only one of several possibilities.

The Great Isaiah Scroll

The Great Isaiah Scroll

Shown here is a portion of the Dead Sea Scroll of Isaiah (1QIsa) that is believed to date from 125 to 100 B.C.E. It was found in 1947 in a cave in Qumran, near the Dead Sea. The highlighted portion shows Isaiah 61:1, 2, the section Jesus read when he visited the synagogue in Nazareth. The individual sheets that make up this scroll were sewn together with linen thread. The scroll was made of 17 parchment strips averaging about 26.4 cm (10.3 in.) in height and varying in width from about 25.2 cm (nearly 10 in.) to about 62.8 cm (about 25 in.). The scroll is a total of 7.3 m (24 ft) in length in its present state of preservation. It was probably a scroll like this one that Jesus opened and then “found the place” where the prophetic words about the Messiah were written. (Lu 4:17) Also highlighted are the three places where the Tetragrammaton occurs in this passage.

Shrine of the Book, Photo © The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, by Ardon Bar Hama

Related Scripture(s)

Lu 4:17-20
Luke 1
Luke 2
Luke 3
Luke 4
Luke 5
Luke 6
Luke 7
Luke 8
Luke 9
Luke 10
Luke 11
Luke 12
Luke 13
Luke 14
Luke 15
Luke 16
Luke 17
Luke 19
Luke 20
Luke 21
Luke 22
Luke 23
Luke 24