1. Many people have set out to write accounts about the events that have been fulfilled among us.
2. They used the eyewitness reports circulating among us from the early disciples.
3. Having carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I also have decided to write a careful account for you, most honorable Theophilus,
4. so you can be certain of the truth of everything you were taught.
5. When Herod was king of Judea, there was a Jewish priest named Zechariah. He was a member of the priestly order of Abijah, and his wife, Elizabeth, was also from the priestly line of Aaron.
6. Zechariah and Elizabeth were righteous in God’s eyes, careful to obey all of the Lord’s commandments and regulations.