1 Many have undertaken to compile a narrative about the events that have been fulfilled[a] among us,
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just as the original eyewitnesses and servants of the word handed them down to us.
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It also seemed good to me, since I have carefully investigated everything from the very first, to write to you in orderly sequence, most honorable Theophilus,
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so that you may know the certainty of the things about which you have been instructed.[b]