Luke 1:2

as they did deliver to us, who from the beginning became eye-witnesses, and officers of the Word, —

Young's Literal Translation

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 did take in hand to set in order a narration of the matters that have been fully assured among us,

3it seemed good also to me, having followed from the first after all things exactly, to write to thee in order, most noble Theophilus,

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Cross References

Mark 1:1A beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, Son of God.

Luke 24:48and ye — ye are witnesses of these things.

Acts 1:3to whom also he did present himself alive after his suffering, in many certain proofs, through forty days being seen by them, and speaking the things concerning the reign of God.

Acts 1:21'It behoveth, therefore, of the men who did go with us during all the time in which the Lord Jesus went in and went out among us,

Acts 10:39and we — we are witnesses of all things that he did, both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem, — whom they did slay, having hanged upon a tree.

Romans 15:16for my being a servant of Jesus Christ to the nations, acting as priest in the good news of God, that the offering up of the nations may become acceptable, 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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