Luke 1:2

just as they were reported to us by those who from the beginning were eye-witnesses, and afterward became bearers of the message.

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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

1To his Excellency, Theophilus. Many attempts have been already made to draw up an account of those events which have reached their conclusion among us,

3And, therefore, I also, since I have investigated all these events with great care from their very beginning, have resolved to write a connected history of them for you,

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Cross References

Mark 1:1The beginning of the good news about Jesus Christ.

Luke 24:48You yourselves are to be witnesses to all this.

Acts 1:3With abundant proofs, he showed himself to them, still living, after his death; appearing to them from time to time during forty days, and speaking of all that related to the kingdom of God.

Acts 1:21Therefore, from among the men who have been with us all the time that Jesus, our Master, went in and out among us –

Acts 10:39We are ourselves, too, witnesses to all that he did in Judea and in Jerusalem; yet they put him to death by hanging him on a cross!

Romans 15:16because of the charge with which God has entrusted me, that I should be an assistant of Christ Jesus to go to the Gentiles – that I should act as a priest of God’s good news, so that the offering up of the Gentiles may be an acceptable sacrifice, consecrated 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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