Luke 3:1

Abilene : a small mountainous region about eighteen miles northwest of Damascus
(33° 35´, 36° 5´)

Caesar : a title held by Roman emperors

Galilee : the region of Palestine north of Sameria and west of the upper Jordan River,a region west of Lake Galilee and north of the Jezreel Valley
(31° 51´, 35° 31´); (32° 42´, 35° 18´); (31° 51´, 35° 31´); (32° 1´, 35° 13´); (32° 48´, 35° 35´)

Herod : son of Antipater; king over Judea when Christ was born,a son of Herod the Great,a grandson of Herod the Great and son of Aristobulus and Berenice

Ituraea : a small province on the northwest border of Palestine by the base of Mount Hermon
(33° 24´, 35° 51´)

Judea : a region that roughly corresponded to the earlier kingdom of Judah
(31° 46´, 35° 14´); (31° 46´, 35° 14´)

Lysanias : one of four men who ruled over 4 sections of Isreal

Philip : a man who was one of the twelve apostles,a son of Herod the Great; husband of Herodias; ruler of Iturea and Traconitis north and west of Galilee,a man who was one of the seven chosen to serve tables at the church at Jerusalem
(32° 29´, 34° 53´); (33° 14´, 35° 41´); (41° 0´, 24° 17´)

Pilate : the Roman governor of Judea who allowed Jesus to be crucified

Pontius Pilate : the Roman governor of Judea who allowed Jesus to be crucified

Tiberius Caesar : the man who succeeded Augustus Caesar as the Roman emperor

Trachonitis : the district around the town of Trachon, east of Galilee and south of Damascus (IBD)
(32° 49´, 36° 30´)

Acts 13:7

Barnabas : a man who was Paul's companion on several of his journeys

Saul : the sixth king of Edom,son of Simeon and a Canaanite woman,son of Uzziah of Kohath son of Levi

Sergius Paulus : a man who was a Roman deputy at Paphos and who believed when the magician was blinded

Acts 18:12

Achaia : a Roman province located in Greece along the south coast of the Gulf of Corinth
(37° 59´, 23° 44´)

Gallio : the man who was deputy or proconsul of Achaia in Corinth.

Jews : the people descended from Israel
(31° 46´, 35° 14´); (31° 46´, 35° 14´)

Paul : a man from Tarsus who persecuted the church but became a missionary and writer of 13 Epistles

Acts 23:26

Claudius : the Roman emperor who was the successor of Caligula,a Roman army captain in Jerusalem

Felix : the governor of Judea at the time Paul visited Jerusalem for the last time

Lysias : a Roman army captain or tribune who helped Paul escape from the Jews

Acts 26:30

Bernice : a daughter of Herod Agrippa I.