Luke 1:2

even as they were delivered to us by those who were eye-witnesses from the beginning and became ministers of the word,

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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

1Inasmuch as many have undertaken to arrange a narrative of those things which are fully believed among us,

3it seemed good to me also, having accurately traced up all things from the first, to write to thee a connected account, most excellent Theophilus,

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Cross References

Mark 1:1The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ;

Luke 24:48Ye are witnesses of these things.

Acts 1:3to whom also he showed himself living, after he had suffered, by many sure proofs, appearing to them during forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.

Acts 1:21Of these men, therefore, who accompanied us all the 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 slew by hanging him on a cross.

Romans 15:16that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus to the gentiles, performing the office of a priest in respect to the gospel of God, that the oblation of the gentiles may be acceptable, being 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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