Luke 1:2

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 first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word.

just as the original eyewitnesses and servants of the word handed them down to us.

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

just as those who were eyewitnesses and servants of the word from the beginning passed on to us,

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