Lukas 1:1-7

Vibahlt (since) many Messianic Sofrim have attempted to compile a sefer, a historical narrative, about the momentous events that have been fulfilled among us, Just as these have been handed down to us by those who from HaReshit were edei reiyah (eyewitnesses) and mesharetim (ministers) of the Dvar HASHEM, I thought it expedient also, having done an iyun (investigative research), accurately and carefully being meayen (engaged in research) in every source and making a medakdeke (pain-stakingly thorough) investigation of every aspect from HaReshit (the Beginning), to write for you and to mesader (arrange, place in succession) an orderly account, most noble Theophilus, That you may have daas of HaEmes regarding the Divrei Moshiach about which you took shiurim (lessons). At the time of Herod king of Yehudah, there was a certain kohen by the name Zecharyah, who belonged to the Aviyah division. His isha was of the banot Aharon, name of Elisheva. And they were both tzaddikim before HASHEM, walking a derech tamim in all the mitzvos and chukkim of the Torah of Adoneinu. But they had no ben, because Elisheva was barren, and they were both advanced in their yamim.