it seemed best to me also--[because I] have followed all [things] carefully from the beginning--to write [them] down in orderly sequence for you, most excellent Theophilus,

Both in every [way] and everywhere we acknowledge [this], most excellent Felix, with all gratitude.

But Paul said, "I am not out of my mind, most excellent Festus, but am speaking words of truth and rationality.

But strive for the greater gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.

having become by so much better than the angels, by as much as he has inherited a more excellent name than theirs.

But now he has attained a more excellent ministry, by as much as he is also mediator of a better covenant which has been enacted upon better promises.