Luke 1:1-4 - The Preface To Luke's Gospel
1 Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to compile a treatise of those things, which are surely known among us, 2 even as they declared them unto us, which from the beginning saw their selves, and were ministers at the doing: 3 I determined also, as soon as I had searched out diligently all things from the beginning, that then I would write unto thee, good Theophilus, 4 that thou mightest know the certainty of those things, whereof thou art informed.