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

Other Translations of Luke 1:2

New International Version

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

English Standard Version

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

The Message

2 using reports handed down by the original eyewitnesses who served this Word with their very lives.

New King James Version

2 just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word delivered them to us,

New Living Translation

2 They used the eyewitness reports circulating among us from the early disciples.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Luke 1:2

Commentary on Luke 1:1-4

(Read Luke 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.