Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, (1:1)

Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word; (1:2)

It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, (1:3)

That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed. (1:4)

--Acts of the Apostles--

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

Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen: (1:2)