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1 Many people have set out to write accounts about the events that have been fulfilled among us.
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Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us,
2 They used the eyewitness reports circulating among us from the early disciples.
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just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word.
3 Having carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I also have decided to write a careful account for you, most honorable Theophilus,
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With this in mind, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I too decided to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus,
4 so you can be certain of the truth of everything you were taught.
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so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught.
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