Luke 1:2

They based their accounts on evidence from the earliest eyewitnesses and ministers of the Word,

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

In Context

1As you know, many others have attempted to put down in writing the things that have been fulfilled that involve us.

3and so I also decided that since I have followed these things very carefully from the beginning, it would be a good idea to write out an accurate account of all that happened.

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Cross References

Mark 1:1Here is the beginning of the good news about Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

Luke 24:48You are witnesses of all this.

Acts 1:3Over the course of forty days after the death he suffered, he showed himself to them, proving that he was alive with convincing evidence. He appeared to them, and told them about the kingdom of God.

Acts 1:21“So now we have to choose someone who has been with us the whole time that Jesus was with us,

Acts 10:39We can testify to all that he did in Judea and Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a cross.

Romans 15:16to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the foreigners, like a priest sharing God's good news, so that they could become an acceptable offering, made holy 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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