Introduction to Luke

A.Controversies and teaching (19:45-21:4)

B.Prediction of the temple’s destruction (21:5-38)

C.Events of Jesus’s final Passover (22:1-46)

D.Betrayal, arrest, and trials (22:47-23:25)

E.Crucifixion and burial (23:26-56)

F.Resurrection, Great Commission, and ascension (24:1-53)

Augustus Caesar’s reign begins. March 15, 44 BC

Roman Senate declares Herod king of the Jews. 39 BC

Herod assumes possession of the domain to which he had been named earlier. 37 BC

Herod begins thorough expansion of the temple in Jerusalem in 20 BC. The inner sanctuary was completed in 1 1/2 years and the rest of the temple was finished in AD 63, only seven years before it was destroyed.

Imperial census in territory governed by Herod 6 to 4 BC

Jesus’s birth 5 BC

Eclipse of the moon just prior to Herod’s death March 12/13, 4 BC

Passover celebrated just after Herod’s death April 11, 4 BC

Herod’s sons, Herod Phillip, Herod Antipas, and Archelaus divide Palestine and rule three territories under the aegis of Rome. 4 BC

Jesus travels with his parents from Nazareth to Jerusalem for the Passover Festival. AD 9

Caiaphas is high priest. 18-36

Pontius Pilate is prefect of Judea. 26-36

John the Baptist’s ministry begins. 29

Jesus’s baptism 29

Jesus’s wilderness temptations 29

Jesus’s call of his first disciples 29

The first Passover of Jesus’s ministry, an occasion on which it was said that the temple (inner sanctuary) had stood for 46 years 30

Jesus goes from Judea to Galilee when he learns of John the Baptist’s death. 30

Second Passover of Jesus’s ministry; he comes under increasing scrutiny for plucking grain on the Sabbath. 31

Jesus feeds the 5,000 around the time of his third Passover. 32

Between Passover of 32 and 33 Jesus withdraws from public ministry and focuses on preparing his disciples. During this time period is Peter’s confession at Caesarea Philippi and Jesus’s transfiguration.

Jesus’s trials, death, and resurrection Nisan 14-16 or April 3-5, 33