1. The former treatise I have made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,
2. until the day in which, having given commandments by the Holy Spirit unto the apostles whom he had chosen, he was received on high;
3. unto whom he also showed himself alive, after he had suffered, by many infallible proofs, appearing unto them for forty days and speaking to them of the kingdom of God;