Luke 1:2

just as they reported them to us, who were from beginning eye- witnesses and ministers of the word,

Montgomery 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

1Seeing that many have taken it in hand to draw up an account of those matters which have been fully established among us,

3it seemed good to me also accurately, from the very beginning, to write them to you in order, most excellent Theophilus,

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Cross References

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

Luke 24:48"You must bear testimony to this.

Acts 1:3After his sufferings he had also shown himself alive to them in many convincing manifestations, revealing himself to them during forty days, and speaking of the kingdom of God.

Acts 1:21"It is necessary then that, of the men who have been associated with us during the whole time in which the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

Acts 10:39"And we were witnesses of all that he did, both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They killed him, hanging him on a tree.

Romans 15:16I act as priest of the gospel of God; so that the Gentiles, when offered before him, may be an acceptable sacrifice, because consecrated 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 →

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