Luke 1:2

Just as they have been delivered to us, by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;

Revised King James 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 undertaken to set forth in order a narrative of those things which have happened among us,

3It seemed good to me also, having carefully investigated all these things from the very beginning, to write to you an orderly account, most excellent Theophilus,

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Cross References

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

Luke 24:48You are witnesses of these things.

Acts 1:3To them he showed himself alive after his suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them over forty days, and speaking of the things concerning the kingdom of God:

Acts 1:21Therefore, of those men who have accompanied us all 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 land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem. And they killed him by hanging him on a tree:

Romans 15:16That I should be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, in the priestly service of the gospel of God, that the offering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being 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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