Luke 1:2

According as they have delivered them unto us, who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word:

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;

In Context

1Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a narration of the things that have been accomplished among us;

3It seemed good to me also, having diligently attained to all things from the beginning, to write to thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,

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Cross References

Mark 1:1The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

Luke 24:48And you are witnesses of these things.

Acts 1:3To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion, by many proofs, for forty days appearing to them, and speaking of the kingdom of God.

Acts 1:21Wherefore of these men who have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus came in and went out among us,

Acts 10:39And we are witnesses of all things that he did in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem, whom they killed, hanging him upon a tree.

Romans 15:16That I should be the minister of Christ Jesus among the Gentiles; sanctifying the gospel of God, that the oblation of the Gentiles may be made acceptable and sanctified in the Holy Ghost.

Matthew Henry on Luke 1:2-5

Luke We are now entering into the labours of another evangelist; his name Luke, which some take to be a contraction of Lucilius; born at Antioch, so St. Jerome. Some think that he was the only one of all the penmen of the scripture that was not of the seed of Israel. He was a Jewish proselyte, and, as some conjecture, converted to Christianity by the ministry of St. Paul at Antioch; and after his coming into Macedonia ( Acts xvi. 10 ) he was his constant companion. He had employed himself in the study and practice… Read the whole commentary →

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