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

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、

就吾輩中既成事實、著手編纂、泐成紀錄、

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,

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,

And you must also testify about me because you have been with me from the beginning of my ministry.

So what makes us think we can escape if we ignore this great salvation that was first announced by the Lord Jesus himself and then delivered to us by those who heard him speak?

Now get to your feet! For I have appeared to you to appoint you as my servant and witness. Tell people that you have seen me, and tell them what I will show you in the future.

This is the Good News about Jesus the Messiah, the Son of God. It began

For we were not making up clever stories when we told you about the powerful coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. We saw his majestic splendor with our own eyes

And now, a word to you who are elders in the churches. I, too, am an elder and a witness to the sufferings of Christ. And I, too, will share in his glory when he is revealed to the whole world. As a fellow elder, I appeal to you:

“ So now we must choose a replacement for Judas from among the men who were with us the entire time we were traveling with the Lord Jesus—from the time he was baptized by John until the day he was taken from us. Whoever is chosen will join us as a witness of Jesus’ resurrection.”

We cannot stop telling about everything we have seen and heard.”

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere— in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

During the forty days after he suffered and died, he appeared to the apostles from time to time, and he proved to them in many ways that he was actually alive. And he talked to them about the Kingdom of God.

“ And we apostles are witnesses of all he did throughout Judea and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a cross,but God raised him to life on the third day. Then God allowed him to appear,not to the general public, but to us whom God had chosen in advance to be his witnesses. We were those who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

You are witnesses of all these things.

So look at Apollos and me as mere servants of Christ who have been put in charge of explaining God’s mysteries.

The farmer plants seed by taking God’s word to others.

But you must continue to believe this truth and stand firmly in it. Don’t drift away from the assurance you received when you heard the Good News. The Good News has been preached all over the world, and I, Paul, have been appointed as God’s servant to proclaim it.I am glad when I suffer for you in my body, for I am participating in the sufferings of Christ that continue for his body, the church.God has given me the responsibility of serving his church by proclaiming his entire message to you.

I am a special messenger from Christ Jesus to you Gentiles. I bring you the Good News so that I might present you as an acceptable offering to God, made holy by the Holy Spirit.

Now these are the gifts Christ gave to the church: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers.Their responsibility is to equip God’s people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ.

By God’s grace and mighty power, I have been given the privilege of serving him by spreading this Good News.Though I am the least deserving of all God’s people, he graciously gave me the privilege of telling the Gentiles about the endless treasures available to them in Christ.