Luke 1:2

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καθὼς παρέδοσαν ἡμῖν, οἱ ἀπʼ ἀρχῆς αὐτόπται, καὶ ὑπηρέται γενόμενοι τοῦ λόγου·

Transliteration

Kathōs paredosan hēmin, hoi ap' archēs autoptai, kai hypēretai genomenoi tou logou;

Grammar Details

• *Kathōs*: conjunction - just as, according as
• *paredosan*: aorist, indicative, active, 3rd person plural - they delivered, handed down
• *hēmin*: dative, 1st person plural - to us
• *hoi*: nominative, masculine, plural, article - the
• *ap' archēs*: preposition + genitive, feminine, singular - from beginning
• *autoptai*: nominative, masculine, plural - eyewitnesses
• *kai*: conjunction - and
• *hypēretai*: nominative, masculine, plural - servants, ministers
• *genomenoi*: aorist, middle, participle, nominative, masculine, plural - having become
• *tou logou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of the word/message

Word Meanings

• *paredosan*: delivered/handed down/transmitted
• *autoptai*: eyewitnesses/those who saw with their own eyes
• *hypēretai*: servants/ministers/attendants
• *logou*: word/message/account

Referenced Verses

• John 15:27 : 27 And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
• Heb 2:3 : 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;
• 2 Pet 1:16 : 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.
• Mark 1:1 : 1 The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God;
• Acts 26:16 : 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 will appear unto thee;
• 1 John 1:1-3 : 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; 2 (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) 3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
• 1 Pet 5:1 : 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:
• Acts 1:21-22 : 21 Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, 22 Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection.
• Acts 4:20 : 20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
• Acts 10:39-41 : 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: 40 Him God raised up the third day, and shewed him openly; 41 Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.
• Luke 24:48 : 48 And ye are witnesses of these things.
• Acts 1:3 : 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 : 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.
• Mark 4:14 : 14 The sower soweth the word.
• Col 1:23-25 : 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 am made a minister; 24 Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church: 25 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
• Rom 15:16 : 16 That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.
• 1 Cor 4:1 : 1 Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
• Eph 3:7-8 : 7 Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power. 8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
• Eph 4:11-12 : 11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; 12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: