Luke 1:1-5

Living Bible

1 ^1-2 Dear friend who loves God:^[a]

Several biographies of Christ have already been written using as their source material the reports circulating among us from the early disciples and other eyewitnesses. ³ However, it occurred to me that it would be well to recheck all these accounts from first to last and after thorough investigation to pass this summary on to you,^{[b] 4} to reassure you of the truth of all you were taught.

⁵ My story begins with a Jewish priest, Zacharias, who lived when Herod was king of Judea. Zacharias was a member of the Abijah division of the Temple service corps. (His wife, Elizabeth, was, like himself, a member of the priest tribe of the Jews, a descendant of Aaron.)