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Luke 1:2

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1:2like the accounts5 passed on6 to us by those who were eyewitnesses and servants of the word7 from the beginning.8

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  1. 5 Grk “even as”; this compares the recorded tradition of 1:1 with the original eyewitness tradition of 1:2.
  2. 6 Or “delivered.”
  3. 7 The phrase eyewitnesses and servants of the word refers to a single group of people who faithfully passed on the accounts about Jesus. The language about delivery (passed on) points to accounts faithfully passed on to the early church.
  4. 8 Grk “like the accounts those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word passed on to us.” The location of “in the beginning” in the Greek shows that the tradition is rooted in those who were with Jesus from the start.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

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

NIVNew International Version (2011)

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

CSBChristian Standard Bible

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

NLTNew Living Translation

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

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

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

KJV 1900King James Version

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