42 — Person: Luke

Number: 42

Person: Luke

Action: Writing the Gospel; physician and historian of the way

Object: Scroll / physician

Scripture connection: Luke 1:1–4 — Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative … it seemed good to me also … to write an orderly account. Colossians 4:14 — Luke the beloved physician.

Memory hook: 42 = the Gospel of Luke — the third Gospel, orderly and full of mercy. The physician who wrote Acts too; the number 42 is the historian of the good news.

Why this number? 42 = Gospel of Luke (42). Luke the physician wrote the third Gospel; the number 42 ties the book to the man and the orderly account.