Luke begins both the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles addressed to Theophilus. Not much is definitively known about this person Theophilus. He may have been a Jew from Alexandria, Egypt or a Roman official. The Gospel of Luke has been dated to 61-63 AD.
1 Many have undertaken to compile a narrative about the events that have been fulfilled among us,
2 just as the original eyewitnesses and servants of the word handed them down to us.
3 So it also seemed good to me, since I have carefully investigated everything from the very first, to write to you in an orderly sequence, most honorable Theophilus,
4 so that you may know the certainty of the things about which you have been instructed.
(the following is from Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary, 1706 -- www.christianity.com)
"Luke will not write of things about which Christians may safely differ from one another, and hesitate within themselves; but the things which are, and ought to be surely believed. The doctrine of Christ is what the wisest and best of men have ventured their souls upon with confidence and satisfaction. And the great events whereon our hopes depend, have been recorded by those who were from the beginning eye-witnesses and ministers of the word, and who were perfected in their understanding of them through Divine inspiration."
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