Luke 1:1 ASV

¹  Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to draw up a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us,

²  even as they delivered them unto us, who from the beginning wer eyewitnesses and ministers of the word,

³  it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus;