Luke 1:2

“Even as they delivered them unto us, etc.] 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, etc. and afterwards seventy disciples; who were eyewitnesses of him, of the truth of…”

“from the beginning--that is, of His public ministry, as is plain from what follows.”

“As they delivered them - As they narrated them. As they gave an account of them. From the beginning - From the commencement of these things - that is, from the birth of John, or perhaps from the beginning of the ministry of Jesus. Eye-witnesses - Who had seen those things themselves, and who were therefore proper witnesses. Ministers of the word - The term “word” here means the “gospel.” Luke never uses it, as John does, to denote the second Person of the Trinity. These eye-witnesses and ministers refer, doubtless, to the seventy disciples, to the apostles, and perhaps to other preachers who had gone forth to proclaim the same things. return to 'Top of Page'”

“which: Luk 24:48; Mar 1:1; Joh 15:27; Act 1:3, Act 1:8, Act 1:21, Act 1:22, Act 4:20, Act 10:39-41; Heb 2:3; Pe1 5:1; Jo1 1:1-3 and: Act 26:16; Rom 15:16; Eph 3:7, Eph 3:8, Eph 4:11, Eph 4:12; Col 1:23-25 Luke 1:3”