Luke 1:1-3
Luke 1: 1 to 3
1 BECAUSE many have willed to record histories of those transactions of which we are persuaded,
2 according to that which they have delivered to us, (they) who from the first were eye-witnesses and ministers of his doctrine;
3 it appeared also to me, that having been intimately near to them all, I should record every thing in its order for thee, illustrious Theophile,