1 Whereas many have undertaken to write a narrative of those things which are most surely believed among us,
2 just as they were handed down to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word,
3 it seemed good to me also, having accurately investigated all things from the very beginning, to write to you an orderly account, most excellent Theophilus,
4 that you might know the certainty of the things which you have been told.