“Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;”
Just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word — Luke distinguishes his own position from the eyewitnesses: he is a second-generation researcher, not a firsthand witness. The eyewitnesses and servants of the word are the apostles and others who saw the ministry and became its proclaimers. The phrase handed down (paredosan) is the technical term for the transmission of sacred tradition — the same word Paul uses in 1 Corinthians 15:3 for passing on the resurrection testimony.
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