<p>1:1 <i>Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to draw up a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us</i>- &quot;The things &quot;matters&quot;&quot; believed are those of Acts 8:12, the things about the Lord Jesus and His Kingdom. But the &quot;things&quot; of the gospel are the &quot;things&quot; of the gospel records. The gospels are transcripts of how e.g. Luke preached the gospel. So the gospel message, &quot;the things&quot; of the Gospel, are to be found in the gospels. The gospel is not a theology collected from the whole New Testament.</p><p>Luke saw the whole of the Old Testament as having its fulfilment in the story of Jesus. He introduces his Gospel record as an account &ldquo;of those matters which have been fulfilled&rdquo; (Lk. 1:1 RV). And &ldquo;those matters&rdquo; he defines in Lk. 1:2 as the things of &ldquo;the word&rdquo;. The RV especially shows his stress on the theme of fulfilment (Lk. 1:20, 23, 37, 45, 54, 55, 57, 70). In essence he is introducing his Gospel just as John does.</p>