就吾輩中既成事實、著手編纂、泐成紀錄、

按照起初亲眼看见的传道人所传给我们的，编著成书；

就是照着从起初以来的目击者和做福音仆人的那些人所传给我们的，

按照起初親眼看見的傳道人所傳給我們的，編著成書；

照那些從起初親自看見又在這道上當差事者所傳給我們的。

就是照著從起初以來的目擊者和做福音僕人的那些人所傳給我們的，

乃依自始親見而為道役者、授於我儕、

乃本傳道者自始親見、而授同人、

乃自始親見而為道之役者、傳授我儕、

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

Reports of these things were handed down to us. There were people who saw these things for themselves from the beginning. They saw them and then passed the word on.

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

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

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

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

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

even as they delivered them unto us, who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word,

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

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

like the accounts passed on to us by those who were eyewitnesses and servants of the word from the beginning.

even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,

爾等素從予遊、亦當為予作證也。

況辜負偌大之救恩、其能僥倖於萬一耶？此救恩自始為主所親傳、而親炙之者又為吾人闡述、鑿鑿有據；

汝且起立、予顯汝前、將有所命、立為執事、以汝所見及予隨時所示者悉為證之。

天主聖子耶穌基督福音之濫觴、

蓋吾儕所宣揚吾主耶穌基督之神德及其重臨、非據玄思妙構之稗乘、乃憑親炙目睹之威靈也。

我乃一長老也、曾目擊基督之受苦蒙難、且於來日將顯之光榮、預有其分焉。吾欲憑此資格、為爾中任長老者進一言。

因是亟宜於吾主耶穌出入我中時、即自如望施洗、至其昇天之日、與我同處之人中、遴選一人、共為耶穌復活之見證。』

凡吾輩所見所聞、不得不言也。』

然聖神降臨、將賜爾等以神力、而爾等將為予作證、始自耶路撒冷、繼及猶太沙瑪里、終至普天率土、無遠不屆。』

蓋自其受難以後、其復活之證、不一而足、現形於其徒者凡四十日、為之闡述天主之國。

凡彼在猶太國及耶路撒冷之所行、吾人實為之證；而人竟懸之於木而殺之。第三日天主甦之、且使其顯現、不在廣眾之前、惟於天主所預定之見證、即其復活後飲食與共之吾曹是已。

爾曹乃諸事之見證也。

人當視吾輩為基督之臣僕、天主眾妙之司庫。

播種者、播道也；

是在爾等篤守信德、確乎不拔、以保因聞福音而得之希望而已。此福音已布於普天生靈、而我葆樂竟得供役於斯。故予樂為爾等遭受苦難、且吾身所遭受者、實足以補基督苦難之所缺也。夫教會者、基督之體也；予既為教會之公僕、則為此體親嘗其苦難、是實天主所托於我、對爾等應盡之本分、亦所以發揚天主之道也。

得在異邦人中充任基督耶穌之役、不得不勉盡司鐸之職、以弘宣基督之福音、務使異邦人受聖神之感化、而超凡入聖、俾我獻之於天主之前、而蒙其悅納。

恩澤所被、或為宗徒。或為先知、或傳福音、或充監牧、師傅、異曲同工、皆為作育聖徒、供役教會、建成基督之體、

天主運用其大能、賜我恩寵、令我得供役於福音。夫我乃諸聖中之至微者、竟亦蒙此殊恩、得在異邦人中弘宣基督不可思議之厚澤、