My first list was created as I marked my Bible by each instance I felt was someone or some group that met my criteria, starting with Matthew. When I went through Mark, I made sure to put parallel passages with the proper instance in Matthew, repeating this for Luke and John. Some people are mentioned in all 4 Gospels, while some are mentioned in only one. It seems that every time I review my list, I end up making some corrections based on new things that I have learned since starting this project. I also found that at times it was difficult to associate people between Gospels since different names were used for certain people.
Without really trying, I came up with 66 encounters of blessings of the 153 people. That is significant to me as that is the number of books we have in our Bible. Most are just one person, some are 2, with the largest being the sending out of the 72. Even though Zacharias and Elizabeth were introduced together, I count them separate since Elizabeth’s filling of the Holy Spirit was told as a separate event, as well as the fact that she is not really shown as receiving a special blessing beyond becoming pregnant until she is filled with the Holy Spirit.
153 Fish 
You can see the list in the menus. I’m trying to make an embedded copy but the formatting going from Google Docs into this blog is not quite right. So in the meantime you can download the PDF version for your perusal. There will be changes as I add encounters to this blog, but mostly cosmetic. And I will flesh things out a bit in each individual post. This is definitely a work in progress.
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