Luke 1:2

exactly as they delivered them to us, who were eve witnesses from the first, and ministers of the word;

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

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 attempted to compose a narrative of facts, confirmed to us by the fullest evidence:

3it seemed right to me also, having obtained accurate knowledge of all things from above, to write to thee in regular order, most excellent Theophilus,

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Cross References

Mark 1:1THE beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;

Luke 24:48And ye are the witnesses of these things.

Acts 1:3to whom also he had shewed himself alive, after he had suffered, by many infallible proofs, during forty days being frequently seen by them, and speaking of the things which relate to the kingdom of God:

Acts 1:21Wherefore from among the men who have associated with us always during the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

Acts 10:39And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the region of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they killed suspending him on a tree:

Romans 15:16that I should be the minister of Jesus Christ unto the Gentiles, ministering the Gospel of God; that the oblation of the Gentiles might be acceptable, 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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