Luke 1:2

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

Text-Critical English 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 undertaken to compile an account of the events that have been fulfilled among us,

3it seemed good to me also, having carefully investigated all things from the beginning, to write an orderly account for yoʋ, most excellent Theophilus,

Read all of Luke 1

Cross References

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

Luke 24:48You are witnesses of these things.

Acts 1:3He presented himself alive to them, after his suffering, by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over the course of forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God.

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

Acts 10:39We are witnesses of everything he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a cross,

Romans 15:16to be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an acceptable offering, 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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Luke 1:2