Luke 1:3 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;

⁴  that thou mightest know the certainty concerning the things wherein thou wast instructed.

⁵  There was in the days of Herod, king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abijah: and he had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.