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Luke’s Account of Things Fulfilled

Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile an account of the things that [a](A)have been fulfilled among us, just as those, who (B)from the beginning [b]were (C)eyewitnesses and [c](D)servants of (E)the [d]word, handed them down to us, it seemed fitting for me as well, (F)having [e]investigated everything carefully from the beginning, to write it out for you (G)in orderly sequence, (H)most excellent (I)Theophilus, so that you may know the certainty about the things you have been [f](J)taught.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 1:1 Or on which there is full conviction
  2. Luke 1:2 Lit became
  3. Luke 1:2 Or ministers
  4. Luke 1:2 Gospel
  5. Luke 1:3 Or followed
  6. Luke 1:4 Or orally instructed in

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

Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;

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,

That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.

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The Promise of the Holy Spirit

The first account, O (A)Theophilus, I [a]composed, about all that Jesus (B)began to do and teach,

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 1:1 Lit made

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

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until the day when He (A)was taken up to heaven, after He (B)had [a]by the Holy Spirit given orders to (C)the apostles whom He had (D)chosen,

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 1:2 Or through

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:

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