Luke 1:2

as they that saw at the beginning, and were ministers of the word, betaken, (as they who saw it from the beginning, and were servants of the word, that was delivered,)

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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

1Forsooth for many men enforced to ordain the telling of things, which be filled in us, (Because many men endeavoured to order the telling of things, which happened among us,)

3it is seen also to me, having from the beginning all things diligently by order, to write to thee, thou best Theophilus, (it is seen also by me, having put all things diligently in order from the beginning, to write to thee, O most excellent Theophilus,)

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Cross References

Mark 1:1The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. (The beginning of the Gospel, or the Good News, of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.)

Luke 24:48And ye be (the) witnesses of these things.

Acts 1:3to whom he showed himself alive after his passion (or his suffering), by many arguments, [or provings], appearing to them (for) forty days, and speaking of the realm of God.

Acts 1:21Therefore it behooveth of these men, that be gathered together with us in all the time, in which the Lord Jesus entered [in], and went out among us,

Acts 10:39And we be witnesses of all things, which he did in the country of (the) Jews, and of Jerusalem; whom they slew, hanging on a tree.

Romans 15:16that I be the minister of Christ Jesus among heathen men. And I hallow the gospel of God, that the offering of heathen men be accepted [or be made acceptable], and hallowed in the Holy Ghost. (that I be the servant of the Messiah Jesus among the Gentiles. And I consecrate the Gospel, or the Good News, of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles be made acceptable, and 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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