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Therefore, Your Excellency, since I have carefully investigated all these things from the beginning, it seemed good to me that I too should write you an accurate and ordered narrative, so that you might know how well-founded are the things about which you have been taught.

In the days of Herod, King of Y’hudah, there was a cohen named Z’kharyah who belonged to the Aviyah division. His wife was a descendant of Aharon, and her name was Elisheva.

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With this in mind, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I too decided to write an orderly account(A) for you, most excellent(B) Theophilus,(C) so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught.(D)

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In the time of Herod king of Judea(E) there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah;(F) his wife Elizabeth was also a descendant of Aaron.

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