Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a narrative of the things that have been fully accomplished among us, even as they delivered them to us, who from the beginning were eye-witnesses and ministers of the word, it seemed good to me also, having accurately traced out all things from the first, to write unto thee an orderly account, most excellent Theophilus, that thou mightest fully know the certainty of the things wherein thou wast instructed.