JESUS CHRIST,
FROM HIS INCARNATION TO HIS ASCENSION.
FROM THE INCARNATION OF THE WORD UNTIL THE CURE OF THE MAN BORN BLIND.
PREFACE OF SAINT LUKE.-ETERNAL GENERATION OF THE WORD AND HIS INCARNATION. -TESTIMONY RENDERED TO HIM BY SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST.-THE HOLY PRECURSOR ANNOUNCED AND PROMISED.
(a) "THE beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ the Son of God."
(b) “Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a narration of the things that have been accomplished among us, according as they have delivered them unto us who from the beginning were eye-witnesses and ministers of the Word; it seemed good to me also, having diligently attained to all things from the beginning, to write to thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, that thou mayest know the verity of those words in which thou hast been instructed."
Thus speaks Saint Luke; and Saint Mark, the other disciple, might have used the same language. Nay, both evangelists could have said what, in point of fact, Saint John has declared: (c) "That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and (a) St. Mark, i. 1. (b) St. Luke, i. 1. (e) I. St. John, i. 1, 3.