Luke 1:2
As they haue deliuered them vnto vs, which from the beginning saw them their selues, and were ministers of ye word,
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Mark 1:1The beginning of the Gospel of Iesus Christ, the Sonne of God:
Luke 24:48Nowe ye are witnesses of these things.
Acts 1:3To whome also he presented himselfe aliue after that he had suffered, by many infallible tokens, being seene of them by the space of fourtie daies, and speaking of those thinges which appertaine to the kingdome of God.
Acts 1:21Wherefore of these men which haue companied with vs, all the time that the Lord Iesus was conuersant among vs,
Acts 10:39And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Iewes, and in Hierusalem, whom they slewe, hanging him on a tree.
Romans 15:16That I should be the minister of Iesus Christ toward the Gentiles, ministring the Gospel of God, that the offering vp of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the holy Ghost.
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 →