1. Forasmuch as many have undertaken to draw up a relation concerning the matters fully believed among us,
2. as those who from the beginning were eye-witnesses of and attendants on the Word have delivered them to us,
3. it has seemed good to me also, accurately acquainted from the origin with all things, to write to thee with method, most excellent Theophilus,
4. that thou mightest know the certainty of those things in which thou hast been instructed.
5. There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest, by name Zacharias, of the course of Abia, and his wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name Elizabeth.
6. And they were both just before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.