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King James Version
Luke 1:2
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just as the original eyewitnesses and servants of the word handed them down to us.
Euen as they deliuered them vnto vs, which from the beginning were eye-witnesses, & ministers of the word:
just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have delivered them to us,
just as they were handed down to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word,
They have written the same things that we learned from others—the people who saw those things from the beginning and served God by telling people his message.
exactly as they were handed down to us by those [with personal experience] who from the beginning [of Christ's ministry] were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word [that is, of the teaching concerning salvation through faith in Christ],
just as they were handed down to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word,
just as those, who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word, handed them down to us,
just as they were handed down to us by the initial eyewitnesses and servants of the word.
They wrote what we had been told by the ones who were there in the beginning and saw what happened.
based on what was handed down to us by those who from the start were eyewitnesses and proclaimers of the message.
as those who from the beginning were eye-witnesses of and attendants on the Word have delivered them to us,
What they have written agrees with what we learned from the people who saw those events from the beginning. They also served God by telling people his message.
As they haue deliuered them vnto vs, which from the beginning saw them their selues, & were ministers of ye word,
According to what was handed down to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of that very word,
They wrote what we have been told by those who saw these things from the beginning and who proclaimed the message.
just as those who were eyewitnesses and servants of the word from the beginning passed on to us,
as those from the beginning delivered to us, becoming eye-witnesses and ministers of the Word,
even as they delivered them unto us, who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word,
As they were handed down to us by those who saw them from the first and were preachers of the word,
even as they delivered them to us, who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word,
just as they were passed down to us by those who had been eyewitnesses and servants of the word from the beginning,Mark 1:1; John 15:27; Hebrews 2:3; 1 Peter 5:1; 2 Peter 1:16; 1 John 1:1;">[xr]
(they) who from the first were eye-witnesses and ministers of his doctrine;
as they delivered them to us, who from the first were eye-witnesses and ministers of the word;
Euen as they deliuered them vnto vs, which from the begynnyng sawe them them selues with their eyes, and were ministers of the worde:
even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word,
even as they delivered them to us, who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word,
Even as they who were eye-witnesses and ministers of the word from the beginning, delivered them to us:
on the authority of those who were from the beginning eye-witnesses and were devoted to the service of the divine Message,
as thei that seyn atte the bigynnyng, and weren ministris of the word,
even as they delivered them to us, who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and attendants of the word,
Even as they delivered them to us, who from the beginning were eye-witnesses, and ministers of the word;
like the accounts passed on to us by those who were eyewitnesses and servants of the word from the beginning.
just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word delivered them to us,
They used the eyewitness reports circulating among us from the early disciples.
Those who saw everything from the first and helped teach the Good News have passed these things on to us.
just as they were handed on to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word,
according as they who from the beginning became eye-witnesses and attendants of the Word delivered them unto us,
According as they have delivered them unto us, who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word:
just as they were delivered to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word,
even as they declared them vnto vs which from the beginnynge sawe them their selves and were ministers at the doyng:
as they did deliver to us, who from the beginning became eye-witnesses, and officers of the Word, --
like as they delyuered the vnto vs, which from the begynnynge sawe them their selues, and were mynisters of the worde,
according as they were delivered to us by persons, who were all along eye-witnesses, and had a share in the transactions themselves:
These things have been written down and agree with the stories that come from the cowboys who were there.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
which: Luke 24:48, Mark 1:1, John 15:27, Acts 1:3, Acts 1:8, Acts 1:21, Acts 1:22, Acts 4:20, Acts 10:39-41, Hebrews 2:3, 1 Peter 5:1, 1 John 1:1-3
and: Acts 26:16, Romans 15:16, Ephesians 3:7, Ephesians 3:8, Ephesians 4:11, Ephesians 4:12, Colossians 1:23-25
Reciprocal: Isaiah 22:4 - Look 1 Corinthians 3:5 - ministers 1 John 2:24 - which
Cross-References
And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord ; and there is none else.
She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Even as they delivered them unto us,.... By whom the evangelist means, as appears from the after description of them, the twelve apostles, and seventy disciples; who handed down to others the accounts of the birth, life, and death of Christ; and according to which the above Christians proposed to write:
which from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word; either of the Gospel, or rather of Christ himself, the eternal Word of God; for from the beginning of Christ's preaching the Gospel, or as soon as he entered upon his public ministry, he called his apostles, as Simon, Andrew, James, John, c. and afterwards seventy disciples who were eyewitnesses of him, of the truth of his incarnation, and of his ministry and miracles; saw, and conversed with him after his resurrection from the dead and beheld his ascension to heaven; and were ministers that were called, qualified, and sent out by him and waited on him, and served him. This shows, as is by some rightly observed, that Luke was not one of the seventy disciples, as some i have thought, and as the title of this Gospel, to the Arabic version of it, expresses; for then he would have been an eyewitness himself: nor did he take his account from the Apostle Paul; for he was not a minister of the word from the beginning, but was as one born out of due time.
i Epiphan. contra Haeres. l. 2. Haeres. 51. Theophylact. in Argument in Luc.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
As they delivered them - As they narrated them. As they gave an account of them.
From the beginning - From the commencement of these things - that is, from the birth of John, or perhaps from the beginning of the ministry of Jesus.
Eye-witnesses - Who had seen those things themselves, and who were therefore proper witnesses.
Ministers of the word - The term “word” here means the “gospel.” Luke never uses it, as John does, to denote the second Person of the Trinity. These eye-witnesses and ministers refer, doubtless, to the seventy disciples, to the apostles, and perhaps to other preachers who had gone forth to proclaim the same things.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Luke 1:2. Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eye-witnesses — Probably this alludes to the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, which it is likely were written before St. Luke wrote his, and on the models of which he professes to write his own; and απ αρχης, from the beginning, must mean, from the time that Christ first began to proclaim the glad tidings of the kingdom; and αυτοπται, eye-witnesses, must necessarily signify, those who had been with him from the beginning, and consequently had the best opportunities of knowing the truth of every fact.
Ministers of the word — του λογου. Some suppose that our blessed Lord is meant by this phrase; as ὁ Λογος, the Word or Logos, is his essential character in John 1:1, c. but it does not appear that any of the inspired penmen ever use the word in this sense except John himself; for here it certainly means the doctrine of Christ; and in this sense λογος is frequently used both by the evangelists and apostles.
