1 ¶ Forasmuch as many have attempted to set forth in order the history of those things which among us have been most certain,

² even as those who were eyewitnesses from the beginning taught us and thus were ministers of the word,

³ it seemed good also to me, after having understood all the things from the beginning with great diligence, to write them unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,

1 ¶ The former treatise I have made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,

² until the day in which, having given commandments by the Holy Spirit unto the apostles whom he had chosen, he was received on high;

³ unto whom he also showed himself alive, after he had suffered, by many infallible proofs, appearing unto them for forty days and speaking to them of the kingdom of God;