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@kay

That’s a great question, and one I’m working out myself right now, as my current WIP is set in the middle of Acts. 🙂

The most important things I can think of are that yes, more than WWII characters, if you’re using real Biblical characters probably try to keep them as exactly in line with scripture as you can.  For this reason, I haven’t yet decided if I’ll have any of the apostles make an appearance in my book, or if they’ll just be mentioned.  If they do make an appearance I think I’ll probably just have them “quote themselves”.  If that makes sense.  Just because I want to not take the chance on doing it wrong.

But even more important than the apostles is Jesus.  I’d be very careful if you want to portray Him as doing something more or different than what is specifically listed in scripture.  There are people who have done so, and sometimes it turns out very badly, (meaning blasphemous,) and sometimes not so badly.  It’s a dangerous area to work in, since He is God.  I’m not sure how I feel people portraying Him in fiction, but I know a lot of people are really set against it, so that would be something to consider about the focus of your audience.

Since I don’t have any context for your story except that it’s set in Luke, I guess there isn’t any more specific advice I can give you.  I hope this helps, though. 😉