Luke 1:2 - Revised Version 1885

² even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word,

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Exactly as they were handed down to us by those who from the [official] beginning [of Jesus' ministry] were eyewitnesses and ministers of the Word [that is, of the doctrine concerning the attainment through Christ of salvation in the kingdom of God],

American Standard Version (1901)

² even as they delivered them unto us, who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word,

Common English Bible

² They used what the original eyewitnesses and servants of the word handed down to us.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² just as they have been handed on to those of us who from the beginning saw the same and were ministers of the word,

Luke 1:2 Cross References

John 15:27

and ye also bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.

Acts 26:16

But arise, and stand upon thy feet: for to this end have I appeared unto thee, to appoint thee a minister and a witness both of the things wherein thou hast seen me, and of the things wherein I will appear unto thee;

2 Peter 1:16

For we did not follow cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

Hebrews 2:3

how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation? which having at the first been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that heard;

Mark 1:1

The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

Acts 1:3

To whom he also shewed himself alive after his passion by many proofs, appearing unto them by the space of forty days, and speaking the things concerning the kingdom of God:

1 Peter 5:1

The elders therefore among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, who am also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:

Acts 4:20

for we cannot but speak the things which we saw and heard.

Luke 24:48

Ye are witnesses of these things.

1 Corinthians 4:1

Let a man so account of us, as of ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.

Acts 1:8

But ye shall receive power, when the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea and Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

Mark 4:14

The sower soweth the word.

Romans 15:16

that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus unto the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.

Mark 16:20

And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs that followed. Amen.

John 16:4

But these things have I spoken unto you, that when their hour is come, ye may remember them, how that I told you. And these things I said not unto you from the beginning, because I was with you.

Acts 8:4

They therefore that were scattered abroad went about preaching the word.

Acts 14:25

And when they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia;

Acts 16:6

And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden of the Holy Ghost to speak the word in Asia;

Acts 17:11

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the scriptures daily, whether these things were so.