Luke 1:2

just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word delivered them to us,

English Majority Text (NT)

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

1Since many have attempted to arrange a narrative about the matters which have taken place among us,

3it seemed good to me also, having followed up accurately all things from above, to write to you in orderly fashion, most distinguished 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 He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many convincing proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking of the things concerning the kingdom of God. 1 The Promise of the Holy Spirit

Acts 1:21Therefore, of these men who have accompanied us in every time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

Acts 10:39And we are witnesses of all things which He did, both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem, whom they also killed by hanging on a tree.

Romans 15:16that I should be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God as a priest, so that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

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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