Luke.9-Luke.19

Ancient fortified city whose walls fell at Joshua's command. Jesus healed Bartimaeus and stayed with Zacchaeus here.

In Noah’s day God judged a violent and corrupt world by a global flood (Gen 6–9). Eight people — Noah, his wife, his three sons and their wi…

The working animal of the Bible world — it plowed the fields, threshed the grain, and gave the apostles an argument for fair pay.

The all-black scavenging bird — first sent from Noah's ark, and the unlikely provider God used to feed Elijah in the desert.

The armoured venomous arachnid of the desert — its hidden sting made it a symbol of unexpected evil and extreme pain throughout the Bible.

The wide-branched fig relative that Zacchaeus climbed — a common tree of the poor, whose fruit had to be pierced before it could ripen.