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just as they were handed on to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word,
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I too decided, after investigating everything carefully from the very first, a to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus,
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so that you may know the truth concerning the things about which you have been instructed.
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