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.

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.

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,

You must also be witnesses about me. That’s because you have been with me from the beginning.

Then how will we escape if we don’t pay attention to God’s great salvation? The Lord first announced this salvation. Those who heard him gave us the message about it.

Now get up. Stand on your feet. I have appeared to you to appoint you to serve me. And you must tell other people about me. You must tell others that you have seen me today. You must also tell them that I will show myself to you again.

This is the beginning of the good news about Jesus the Messiah, the Son of God.

We told you about the time our Lord Jesus Christ came with power. But we didn’t make up clever stories when we told you about it. With our own eyes we saw him in all his majesty.

I’m speaking to the elders among you. I was a witness of Christ’s sufferings. And I will also share in the glory that is going to come. I’m making my appeal to you as one who is an elder together with you.

So we need to choose someone to take his place. It will have to be a man who was with us the whole time the Lord Jesus was living among us.That time began when John was baptizing. It ended when Jesus was taken up from us. The one we choose must join us in telling people that Jesus rose from the dead.”

There’s nothing else we can do. We have to speak about the things we’ve seen and heard.”

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you. Then you will tell people about me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria. And you will even tell other people about me from one end of the earth to the other.”

After his suffering and death, he appeared to them. In many ways he proved that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of 40 days. During that time he spoke about God’s kingdom.

“ We are witnesses of everything he did in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They killed him by nailing him to a cross.But on the third day God raised him from the dead. God allowed Jesus to be seen.But he wasn’t seen by all the people. He was seen only by us. We are witnesses whom God had already chosen. We ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

You have seen these things with your own eyes.

So here is how you should think of us. We serve Christ. We are trusted with the mysteries God has shown us.

The seed the farmer plants is God’s message.

But you must keep your faith steady and firm. You must not move away from the hope the good news holds out to you. This is the good news that you heard. It has been preached to every creature under heaven. I, Paul, now serve the good news.I am happy because of what I am suffering for you. My suffering joins with and continues the sufferings of Christ. I suffer for his body, which is the church.I serve the church. God appointed me to bring the complete word of God to you.

to serve Christ Jesus among the Gentiles. I have the duty of a priest to preach God’s good news. Then the Gentiles will become an offering that pleases God. The Holy Spirit will make the offering holy.

So Christ himself gave the gift of the apostles to the church. He gave the prophets and those who preach the good news. And he also gave the pastors and teachers as a gift to the church.He gave all these people so that they might prepare God’s people to serve. Then the body of Christ will be built up.

I now serve the good news because God gave me his grace. His power is at work in me.I am by far the least important of all the Lord’s holy people. But he gave me the grace to preach to the Gentiles about the unlimited riches that Christ gives.