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A Carefully Investigated Account for Certainty
Luke 1:1–4 centers on a carefully investigated account for certainty, Luke’s formal prologue to the two-volume Luke–Acts narrative.
The wider biblical story comes into focus here. Acts explicitly addresses the same Theophilus and refers back to the 'former treatise,' making Luke 1:1–4 the opening of a two-volume work.
No universally accepted canonical New Testament manuscript has been identified among the Dead Sea Scrolls; attempts to identify Cave 7 fragments as New Testament texts have not succeeded in mainstream manuscript identification.