Luke 1:2

as those being eyewitnesses and ministers of the Word have delivered unto us;

1902 William Baxter Godbey 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

1Inasmuch as many took it in hand to present a history concerning these things which have been fulfilled among us,

3it seemed good to me also, having followed carefully all things from the beginning, to write unto thee consecutively, O most noble Theophilus,

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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 1:3To whom He also, after He suffered, manifested Himself alive in many testimonials, being seen by them forty days, and speaking the things concerning the kingdom of God:

Acts 1:21Therefore the men having come together with us all the time in which the Lord Jesus came in unto us and went out,

Acts 10:39And we are witnesses in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they even slew, hanging him on the wood.

Romans 15:16that I should be the minister of Christ Jesus unto the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering of the Gentiles may be well received, having been 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 →

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