Luke 1:2 just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word.

English Standard Version
just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have delivered them to us,

New American Standard Bible
just as they were handed down to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word,

King James Bible
Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
just as the original eyewitnesses and servants of the word handed them down to us.

International Standard Version
just as they were passed down to us by those who had been eyewitnesses and servants of the word from the beginning,

American Standard Version
even as they delivered them unto us, who from the beginning wer eyewitnesses and ministers of the word,

Douay-Rheims Bible
According as they have delivered them unto us, who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word:

Darby Bible Translation
as those who from the beginning were eye-witnesses of and attendants on the Word have delivered them to us,

Young's Literal Translation
as they did deliver to us, who from the beginning became eye-witnesses, and officers of the Word, --

Cross References

Mark 4:14
The sower sows the word.

Mark 16:20
And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.

John 15:27
And you also shall bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.

John 16:4
But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, you may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not to you at the beginning, because I was with you.

Acts 1:21
Why of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

Acts 8:4
Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word.

Acts 14:25
And when they had preached the word in Perga, they went down into Attalia:

Acts 16:6
Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia,

Acts 17:11
These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

Acts 26:16
But rise, and stand on your feet: for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to make you a minister and a witness both of these things which you have seen, and of those things in the which I will appear to you;

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

1:1-4. Luke will not write of things about which Christians may safely differ from one another, and hesitate within themselves; but the things which are, and ought to be surely believed. The doctrine of Christ is what the wisest and best of men have ventured their souls upon with confidence and satisfaction. And the great events whereon our hopes depend, have been recorded by those who were from the beginning eye-witnesses and ministers of the word, and who were perfected in their understanding of them through Divine inspiration.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

2. from the beginning—that is, of His public ministry, as is plain from what follows.