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

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,

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.

You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation— which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard,

But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you;

The beginning of the Good News of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

For we didn’t follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.

“ Of the men therefore who have accompanied us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,beginning from the baptism of John, to the day that he was received up from us, of these one must become a witness with us of his resurrection.”

for we can’t help telling the things which we saw and heard.”

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God’s Kingdom.

We are witnesses of everything he did both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they also killed, hanging him on a tree.God raised him up the third day, and gave him to be revealed,not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen before by God, to us, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

You are witnesses of these things.

So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.

The farmer sows the word.

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,of which I was made a servant according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you to fulfill the word of God,

that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,

of which I was made a servant according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,