• 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.

Alabaster Jar

Alabaster Jar

These small vaselike vessels for perfume were originally made of stone found near Alabastron, Egypt. The stone itself, a form of calcium carbonate, came to be known by the name Alabastron. The jar shown here was discovered in Egypt and dates from somewhere between 150 B.C.E. and 100 C.E. A less costly material, such as gypsum, was used to make similar-looking jars; these too were called alabasters, simply because of the use to which they were put. However, cases made of genuine alabaster were used for the more costly ointments and perfumes, like those with which Jesus was anointed on two occasions​—once at the house of a Pharisee in Galilee and once at the house of Simon the leper in Bethany.

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Related Scripture(s)

Mt 26:7; Mr 14:3; Lu 7:37
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