1 Many people have tried to tell the story of what God has done among us.
2 They wrote what we had been told by the ones who were there in the beginning and saw what happened.
3 So I made a careful study of everything and then decided to write and tell you exactly what took place. Honorable Theophilus,
4 I have done this to let you know the truth about what you have heard.
5 When Herod was king of Judea, there was a priest by the name of Zechariah from the priestly group of Abijah. His wife Elizabeth was from the family of Aaron.
6 Both of them were good people and pleased the Lord God by obeying all that he had commanded.
7 But they did not have children. Elizabeth could not have any, and both Zechariah and Elizabeth were already old.