Luke 1:1
Douay-Rheims
Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a narration of the things that have been accomplished among us;
Bede the Venerable
Nevertheless both Matthew and John were obliged in many things that they wrote to consult those who had had means of knowing the infancy, childhood, and genealogy of our Lord, and of seeing the things which he did.
Source details
A.D. 735 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 1:1-4
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.