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Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to draw up a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us,
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even as they delivered them unto 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 unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus;
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that thou mightest know the certainty concerning the things wherein thou wast instructed.
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There was in the days of Herod, king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abijah: and he had a wife of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.
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And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.