[1:1] Dear Theophilus: Many people have done their best to write a report of the things that have taken place among us.
[1:2] They wrote what we have been told by those who saw these things from the beginning and who proclaimed the message.
[1:3] And so, Your Excellency, because I have carefully studied all these matters from their beginning, I thought it would be good to write an orderly account for you.
[1:4] I do this so that you will know the full truth about everything which you have been taught.