Luke 1:1
New International Version
Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us,

New Living Translation
Many people have set out to write accounts about the events that have been fulfilled among us.

English Standard Version
Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things that have been accomplished among us,

Berean Standard Bible
Many have undertaken to compose an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us,

Berean Literal Bible
Inasmuch as many have undertaken to draw up a narration concerning the things having been accomplished among us,

King James Bible
Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,

New King James Version
Inasmuch as many have taken in hand to set in order a narrative of those things which have been fulfilled among us,

New American Standard Bible
Since many have undertaken to compile an account of the things accomplished among us,

NASB 1995
Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile an account of the things accomplished among us,

NASB 1977
Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile an account of the things accomplished among us,

Legacy Standard Bible
Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us,

Amplified Bible
Since [as is well known] many have undertaken to compile an orderly account of the things which have been fulfilled among us [by God],

Christian Standard Bible
Many have undertaken to compile a narrative about the events that have been fulfilled among us,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Many have undertaken to compile a narrative about the events that have been fulfilled among us,

American Standard Version
Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to draw up a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because many were willing to write an account of those events of which we are persuaded,

Contemporary English Version
Many people have tried to tell the story of what God has done among us.

Douay-Rheims Bible
FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a narration of the things that have been accomplished among us;

English Revised Version
Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to draw up a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Many have attempted to write about what had taken place among us.

Good News Translation
Dear Theophilus: Many people have done their best to write a report of the things that have taken place among us.

International Standard Version
Since many people have attempted to write an orderly account of the events that have transpired among us,

Literal Standard Version
Seeing that many took in hand to set in order a narration of the matters that have been fully assured among us,

Majority Standard Bible
Many have undertaken to compose an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us,

New American Bible
Since many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the events that have been fulfilled among us,

NET Bible
Now many have undertaken to compile an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us,

New Revised Standard Version
Since many have undertaken to set down an orderly account of the events that have been fulfilled among us,

New Heart English Bible
Since many have undertaken to set in order a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us,

Webster's Bible Translation
Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,

Weymouth New Testament
Seeing that many have attempted to draw up a narrative of the facts which are received with full assurance among us

World English Bible
Since many have undertaken to set in order a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us,

Young's Literal Translation
Seeing that many did take in hand to set in order a narration of the matters that have been fully assured among us,

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Context
Dedication to Theophilus
1 Many have undertaken to compose an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, 2just as they were handed down to us by the initial eyewitnesses and servants of the word.…

Cross References
Mark 16:20
And they went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked through them, confirming His word by the signs that accompanied it.

Romans 4:21
being fully persuaded that God was able to do what He had promised.

Romans 14:5
One person regards a certain day above the others, while someone else considers every day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.

Colossians 2:2
that they may be encouraged in heart, knit together in love, and filled with the full riches of complete understanding, so that they may know the mystery of God, namely Christ,

Colossians 4:12
Epaphras, who is one of you and a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you greetings. He is always wrestling in prayer for you, so that you may stand mature and fully assured in the full will of God.

1 Thessalonians 1:5
because our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power, in the Holy Spirit, and with great conviction--just as you know we lived among you for your sake.

2 Timothy 4:17
But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed, and all the Gentiles would hear it. So I was delivered from the mouth of the lion.


Treasury of Scripture

For as much as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,

those.

John 20:31
But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.

Acts 1:1-3
The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, …

1 Timothy 3:16
And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

most surely.

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Luke 1
1. The preface of Luke to his whole gospel.
5. The conception of John the Baptist;
26. and of Jesus.
39. The prophecy of Elisabeth and of Mary, concerning Jesus.
57. The nativity and circumcision of John.
67. The prophecy of Zachariah, both of Jesus,
76. and of John.














(1) Forasmuch as many have taken in hand.--On the general bearing of this passage on the questions connected with the authorship and plan of the Gospel, see the Introduction. Here we note (1), what is visible in the English, but is yet more conspicuous in the Greek, the finished structure of the sentences as compared with the simpler openings of the other Gospels; (2) the evidence which the verse supplies of the existence of many written documents professing to give an account of the Gospel history at the time when St. Luke wrote--i.e., probably before St. Paul's death in A.D. 65. The "many" may have included St. Matthew and St. Mark, but we cannot say. There is no tone of disparagement in the way in which the writer speaks of his predecessors. He simply feels that they have not exhausted the subject, and that his inquiries have enabled him to add something.

Of those things which are most surely believed among us.--Better, of the things that have been accomplished among us.

Verse 1. - Forasmuch as many have taken in hand. The Greek in which St. Luke's Gospel is written is generally pure and classical, but the language of the little introduction (verse 1-4) is especially studied and polished, and contrasts singularly with the Hebrew character of the story of the nativity, which immediately follows. St, Luke here, in this studied introduction, follows the example of many of the great classical writers, Latin as well as Greek. Thucydides, Herodotus, Livy, for instance, paid special attention to the opening sentences of their histories. The many early efforts to produce a connected history of the life and work of the great Master Christ are not, as some have supposed, alluded to here with anything like censure, but are simply referred to as being incomplete, as written without order or arrangement. They most probably formed the basis of much of St. Luke's own Gospel. These primitive Gospels quickly disappeared from sight, as they evidently contained nothing more than what was embodied in the fuller and more systematic narratives of the "four." Of those things which are most surely believed among us. There was evidently no questioning in the Church of the first days about the truth of the story of the teaching and the mighty works of Jesus of Nazareth. It was the incompleteness of these first evangelists, rather than their inaccuracy, which induced St. Luke to take in hand a new Gospel.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Many
πολλοὶ (polloi)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 4183: Much, many; often.

have undertaken
ἐπεχείρησαν (epecheirēsan)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 2021: To take in hand, attempt. From epi and cheir; to put the hand upon, i.e. Undertake.

to compose
ἀνατάξασθαι (anataxasthai)
Verb - Aorist Infinitive Middle
Strong's 392: From ana and the middle voice of tasso; to arrange.

an account
διήγησιν (diēgēsin)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1335: A narrative. From diegeomai; a recital.

of
περὶ (peri)
Preposition
Strong's 4012: From the base of peran; properly, through, i.e. Around; figuratively with respect to; used in various applications, of place, cause or time.

the
τῶν (tōn)
Article - Genitive Neuter Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

things that
πραγμάτων (pragmatōn)
Noun - Genitive Neuter Plural
Strong's 4229: A thing done, a deed, action; a matter, an affair. From prasso; a deed; by implication, an affair; by extension, an object.

have been fulfilled
πεπληροφορημένων (peplērophorēmenōn)
Verb - Perfect Participle Middle or Passive - Genitive Neuter Plural
Strong's 4135: From pleres and phoreo; to carry out fully, i.e. Completely assure, entirely accomplish.

among
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

us,
ἡμῖν (hēmin)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative 1st Person Plural
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.


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