Luke 1:2

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

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 been disposed to write narratives of those events, of which we have full assurance,

3it seemed proper for me also, as I had examined them all accurately, to write out the whole, methodically, for thee, excellent Theophilus:

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Cross References

Mark 1:1THE beginning of the gospel of Jesus the Messiah, the Son of God.

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

Acts 1:3To whom also he showed himself alive after he had suffered, by numerous signs, during forty days, while he was seen by them, and spoke of the kingdom of God.

Acts 1:21It should therefore be, that one of these persons, who have been with us all the time that our Lord Jesus went in and out with us,

Acts 10:39And we are his witnesses, as to whatever he did in all the region of Judaea and in Jerusalem. This same person the Jews hanged on a tree, and slew him.

Romans 15:16that I should be a minister of Jesus Messiah among the Gentiles, and should subserve the gospel of God, that the oblation of the Gentiles might be acceptable, and be sanctified 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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