PROLOGUE I

 Seeing that many others have undertaken to draw up accounts of the events that have reached their fulfillment among us (Acts 1:1) (1 Corinthians 15:3), as these were handed down to us by those who from the outset were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word (Luke 24:48) (John 15:27) (Acts 1:21-22), I in my turn, after carefully going over the whole story from the beginning, have decided to write an ordered account for you, Theophilus, so that your Excellency may learn how well founded the teaching is that you have received. Return