Let's Look at Luke Trivia Quiz

Answer: Gennesaret

This is an account of when and where Jesus called some of his disciples. Jesus had a large crowd of people following him to hear him speaking. He called two fishermen over and asked to use one of their boats - in this case, Simon Peter's. Jesus told them to put their nets out into the deep water, even though they told him they had fished all night and caught nothing.

When they obeyed Jesus, they caught so many fish their nets were breaking. When Peter saw it, he fell at Jesus' feet. He and the brothers Zebedee, James and John, left everything and became followers of Jesus.

The Lake of Gennesaret is another name for the Sea of Galilee, and it was also sometimes referred to as the Sea of Tiberias.

Answer: Jairus

Jairus was the ruler of the synagogue who managed both the spiritual and the business affairs of the synagogue. He knew of Jesus, but Jesus wasn't the kind of Messiah the Jewish nation had been expecting. When his daughter became gravely ill, he was desperate. He came and fell at Jesus' feet. Jesus agreed to go with him to his home.

On the way, there was another person needing Jesus' hand of healing. Jesus delayed while he healed the woman, and when they resumed their journey, someone came and told Jairus that his child was dead. Jesus told Jairus not to lose faith. When they came to Jairus's house, the weeping parents of the girl, Peter, James and John entered the girl's room along with Jesus. When he told them she was sleeping, they laughed at him - she was obviously dead. Then Jesus, who knew of a higher power and reality, held out his hand to her and told her to arise. When she did just that, he ordered food to be served to her.

Answer: Sight

As Jesus reaches Jericho, a blind man calls out to Jesus for pity and to be healed. People try to shush him, but he is all the more insistent. He calls Jesus 'Son of David'. This is traditionally understood to mean that Jesus, a descendant of David, was the looked-for Messiah. While he is not named in the Gospel of Luke, a parallel passage in Mark 10 tells us with great specificity his name is Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus.

Jesus asks Bartimaeus what he wants, even though he knew. Some Christians suggest that this is to remind us that we should bring all our cares to God, even though he is all-knowing. Jesus connects Bartimaeus's healing with his faith and granted the man's request, healing him of blindness.

By the time we reach Luke 18, the earthly ministry of Jesus is nearly at an end. In this chapter, he encourages his disciples to keep praying, and to not lose heart. He foretells his death in verses 31-34.

Answer: Withered hand

The Pharisees watched carefully as Jesus entered the synagogue and passed by a man with a withered hand, to see if he would perform a miracle on the Sabbath (this showing implicitly the Pharisees believed he actually could perform a miracle).

Showing that he had the power to heal, and at the same time giving the man the ability to obey though faith, Jesus told the man, "Stretch out your hand" (v 10). As the man stretched out his hand, he was healed.

The Pharisees were furious. Jesus had broken the religious traditions of the establishment! In Mark, Jesus rebuked the religious leaders of his day for this kind of attitude. He said: "You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.... you have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition... thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down." (Mark 7:8-9, 7:13 ESV).

Answer: Capernaum

The centurion was a Roman citizen, and many would think that Jesus would not or should not be involved with such a person - a Gentile! However, the centurion asserted that just as people obeyed his commands as a temporal leader, Jesus' authority over the spiritual world would be obeyed.

This faith was marvelled at by Jesus, when he said: 'I tell you, I have not found such great faith, no, not in Israel' (v 9). Jesus demonstrated that faith is honoured, and the centurion and his delegation return to the centurion's house to find the servant healed.

Answer: Paralytic man

Luke tells us that this event took place at the time when Jesus was performing many miracles and teaching people. In this case, there was a man suffering from palsy; 'palsy' is an archaic contraction of the word 'paralysis' and was the loss of sensation or power of movement in any part of the body. Jesus saw the faith of the friends of the man who ingeniously removed roof tiles of the place where Jesus was teaching and lowered him down for Jesus' attention. Jesus responded to this faith by telling the man that his sins were forgiven, and the man was made whole.

The Pharisees didn't like the suggestion that Jesus could forgive sins; but Jesus quite reasonably responded "Which is easier, to say, 'Your sins are forgiven you,' or to say, 'Rise and walk'?" (Luke 5:23 ESV). Whether Jesus forgave the man's sins or 'merely' healed him, faith was an important element.

Answer: Issue of blood

Under Jewish law, the issue of blood that this woman had suffered for 12 years made her ceremonially and socially unclean. She had spent all her money on doctors trying to be healed, to no avail. Unlike many of the others, who begged Jesus for help loudly, she did so secretly, coming up behind Jesus and touching just the hem of his garment.

She believed that by this simple act she would be healed. Jesus honours faith, however small, and desires to make all of the faithful whole; the instant she touched his garment the flow stopped.

He tells her that her faith has made her whole and calls her daughter.

Answer: 10 lepers

In his way to Jerusalem, Jesus passes through a valley the midst of Samaria and Galilee. There was a colony of lepers there, who called on Jesus to heal them. Leprosy is an airborne disease that causes skin tissue to degenerate, and as there was no cure in Bible times, sufferers were forced to remove themselves from the general population. Who knows how these poor people had heard of Jesus and the miracles he had been performing? However they came by the news, they pleaded with him for mercy. In this instance, Jesus did not heal them instantly as he did some others; instead, Luke tells us that he told them to go show themselves to the priests.

As they turned to obey, they were healed. One of them returned to Jesus and praised him loudly, the Bible tells us, and he was a Samaritan.

The others went on their way, healed, without remembering to give thanks.

Answer: Nain

The city of Nain is mentioned only once in the Bible and only as the place where the widow's son was raised from the dead. The same place, found on the Hill of Moreh, near Galilee, is today called Nein.

Jesus and his disciples were on the road when they came across the funeral procession of a young man who was the sole source of support for his bereaved mother. Jesus saw the mother's distress and, moved with compassion, said to her, "Do not weep." In the presence of all the mourners, he stopped the procession and told the young man to arise. The young man stood up immediately and began to talk. The effect must have been electric. What joy that the people in attendance must have felt! Of course, this man died again eventually; but this miracle records the power of Jesus over death and his concern and compassion for needy people.

Answer: Peter's mother-in-law

In this chapter, Jesus was in the wilderness, struggling with temptation for forty days. After this, he returns to Nazareth, where people greet him sceptically. Luke tells of how he goes down to Capernaum where a number of miracles are recorded. While there, he visits the house where Simon-Peter's mother-in-law lies gravely ill, suffering from a severe fever. Jesus rebuked the fever and immediately, Peter's mother-in-law rose from her sick bed and began to serve the visitors. Luke, who is also known as The Physician, records many of the healing miracles of Jesus.