Luke 1:2

(they) who from the first were eye-witnesses and ministers of his doctrine;

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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

1BECAUSE many have willed to record histories of those transactions of which we are persuaded, according to that which they have delivered to us,

3it appeared also to me, that having been intimately near to them all, I should record every thing in its order for thee, illustrious Theophile,

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Cross References

Mark 1:1THE beginning of the Gospel of Jeshu Meshicha, the Son of Aloha.

Luke 24:48And you are the witnesses of these. And I will send upon you the promise of my Father.

Acts 1:3to whom also he showed himself alive, after he had suffered, with many signs, for forty days, appearing to them, and discoursing on the kingdom of Aloha.

Acts 1:21There needeth therefore one from these men who have been with us in all this time in which our Lord Jeshu hath come in and gone out among us,

Acts 10:39And we are his witnesses of all which he did in the land of Jihud and of Urishlem. This (one) himself did the Jihudoyee hang upon the tree and kill;

Romans 15:16to be a minister of Jeshu Meshiha among the Gentiles, and to labour in the gospel of Aloha, that there may be an oblation of the Gentiles, acceptable and holy through the Spirit of Holiness.

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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