1 Since [[1]as is well known] many have undertaken to put in order and draw up a [[2]thorough] narrative of the surely established deeds which have been accomplished and fulfilled [3] in and among us,

2 Exactly as they were handed down to us by those who from the [[4]official] beginning [of Jesus’ ministry] were eyewitnesses and ministers of the Word [that is, of [5]the doctrine concerning the attainment through Christ of salvation in the kingdom of God],