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Because many have undertaken to draw up a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us,
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even as they delivered them to us, who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word,
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it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilus;
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that you might know the certainty concerning the things in which you were instructed.
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There was in the days of Herod, the king of Yehudah, a certain Kohen named Zekharyah, of the priestly division of Aviyah. He had a wife of the daughters of Aharon, and her name was Elisheva.
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They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the mitzvot and ordinances of the Lord.
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But they had no child, because Elisheva was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.
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