Lucas 1:2

2 tal como nos las han transmitido los que desde el principio fueron testigos oculares y ministros de la palabra ^[a] ,

Lucas 1:2 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 1:2

Even as they delivered them unto us
By whom the evangelist means, as appears from the after description of them, the twelve apostles, and seventy disciples; who handed down to others the accounts of the birth, life, and death of Christ; and according to which the above Christians proposed to write:

which from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the
word;
either of the Gospel, or rather of Christ himself, the eternal Word of God; for from the beginning of Christ's preaching the Gospel, or as soon as he entered upon his public ministry, he called his apostles, as Simon, Andrew, James, John and afterwards seventy disciples; who were eyewitnesses of him, of the truth of his incarnation, and of his ministry and miracles; saw, and conversed with him after his resurrection from the dead and beheld his ascension to heaven; and were ministers that were called, qualified, and sent out by him and waited on him, and served him. This shows, as is by some rightly observed, that Luke was not one of the seventy disciples, as some ^F9 have thought, and as the title of this Gospel, to the Arabic version of it, expresses; for then he would have been an eyewitness himself: nor did he take his account from the Apostle Paul; for he was not a minister of the word from the beginning, but was as one born out of due time.

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 Epiphan. contra Haeres. l. 2. Haeres. 51. Theophylact. in Argument in Luc.

Lucas 1:2 In-Context

1 Por cuanto muchos han tratado de compilar una historia de las cosas que entre nosotros son muy ciertas,

2 tal como nos las han transmitido los que desde el principio fueron testigos oculares y ministros de la palabra ,

3 también a mí me ha parecido conveniente, después de haberlo investigado todo con diligencia desde el principio, escribírtelas ordenadamente, excelentísimo Teófilo,

4 para que sepas la verdad precisa acerca de las cosas que te han sido enseñadas.

5 Hubo en los días de Herodes, rey de Judea, cierto sacerdote llamado Zacarías, del grupo de Abías, que tenía por mujer una de las hijas de Aarón que se llamaba Elisabet.

Footnotes

• [a]. I.e., el evangelio