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Capernaum

Capernaum was a working-class Jewish village on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee that served as Jesus’ primary base for ministry, featuring a significant synagogue where He taught and performed miracles amid a community facing spiritual conflict and social challenges.

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Elizabeth, the righteous and faithful wife of Zechariah, is the mother of John the Baptist, whose miraculous late-in-life pregnancy testifies to God’s power and faithfulness in preparing the way for Jesus.

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John the Baptist, emerging from humble origins and the wilderness, ministers a call to repentance and baptism, preparing the way for Jesus and the coming kingdom of God.

Capernaum

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Capernaum

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Elizabeth

Elizabeth, the righteous and faithful wife of Zechariah, is the mother of John the Baptist, whose miraculous late-in-life pregnancy testifies to God’s power and faithfulness in preparing the way for Jesus.

Simeon

Simeon in Luke is a faithful, Spirit-led servant who recognizes Jesus as the promised Messiah, proclaiming salvation and foretelling the challenges to come.

Caesar Augustus

Tax Collectors

In the first century, tax collectors were despised as corrupt collaborators with Rome, yet in the Gospel story they become powerful symbols of repentance and God’s grace reaching even the most outcast.

Tiberius Caesar

Tiberius Caesar was the Roman Emperor during Jesus’ ministry, whose reign provides a historical backdrop for key events in the New Testament, notably referenced in Luke as the time when John the Baptist began his ministry.

John the Baptist

John the Baptist, emerging from humble origins and the wilderness, ministers a call to repentance and baptism, preparing the way for Jesus and the coming kingdom of God.

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