Anakalypsis / Unveiling the Word

Luke 1:2

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

KJV

καθὼς παρέδοσαν ἡμῖν οἱ ἀπ’ ἀρχῆς αὐτόπται καὶ ὑπηρέται γενόμενοι τοῦ λόγου,

Greek NT

sicut tradiderunt nobis, qui ab initio ipsi viderunt, et ministri fuerunt sermonis :

Vulgate

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

ASV

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

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτόπτης
autoptes
noun · 1×
γίνομαι
ginomai
verb · 667×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καθώς
kathos
adverb · 181×
λόγος
logos
noun · 330×
παραδίδωμι
paradidomi
verb · 119×
ἀπό
apo
preposition · 640×
ἀρχή
arche
noun · 56×
ἡμεῖς
emeis
pronoun · 862×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὑπηρέτης
uperetes
noun · 20×

Historic Christian voices

9 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

If Paul had known any mysteries unrevealed to the other apostles, Luke, his constant companion and fellow-traveller, could not have been ignorant of them; neither could the truth have possibly lain hid from him, through whom alone we learn many and most important particulars of the Gospel history. 1. But that this Luke was inseparable from Paul, and his fellow-labourer in the G…
1. By transmitting to you, my very dear friend, this fourth book of the work which is [entitled] The Detection and Refutation of False Knowledge, I shall, as I have promised, add weight, by means of the words of the Lord, to what I have already advanced; so that you also, as you have requested, may obtain from me the means of confuting all the heretics everywhere, and not permi…
1. The reason, O children greatly beloved, why we entertain you portion by portion with the thoughts taken from the Scriptures, and do not at once pour all forth to you, is, that the retaining what is successively set before you may be easy. For even in building, one who before the first stones are settled lays on others, constructs a rotten wall altogether, and easily thrown d…
1. Our Lord Jesus Christ calls His coming in the flesh an exodus [or going out]: as when He says, The sower went out to sow. Matthew 13:3 And again, I went out from the Father, and have come. John 16:28 And in many places one may see this. But Paul calls it an [eisodus or] coming in, saying, And when again He brings in the First-Begotten into the world, meaning by this Bringing…
32. It is plain from this that the Arians are not fighting with us about their heresy; but while they pretend us, their real fight is against the Godhead Itself. For if the voice were ours which says, 'This it My Son ,' small were our complaint of them; but if it is the Father's voice, and the disciples heard it, and the Son too says of Himself, 'Before all the mountains He beg…
1. That Paul preached to the Gentiles and laid the foundations of the churches from Jerusalem round about even unto Illyricum, is evident both from his own words, Romans 15:19 and from the account which Luke has given in the Acts. 2. And in how many provinces Peter preached Christ and taught the doctrine of the new covenant to those of the circumcision is clear from his own wor…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 3:5 — Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
  • 1Cor 4:1 — Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
  • 1John 1:1 — That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;
  • 1John 1:1 — That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;
  • 1Pet 5:1 — The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
  • 2Pet 1:16 — For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
  • Acts 1:3 — To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:
  • Acts 1:8 — But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth
  • Acts 1:21 — Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,
  • Acts 4:20 — For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
  • Acts 4:20 — For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
  • Acts 10:39 — And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:
  • Acts 26:16 — But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I w
  • Col 1:23 — If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul
  • Eph 4:11 — And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
  • Heb 2:3 — How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
  • Heb 2:3 — How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
  • John 15:27 — And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
  • John 15:27 — And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
  • Luke 24:48 — And ye are witnesses of these things.
  • Mark 1:1 — The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;
  • Mark 1:1 — The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;