Theophilus with Jesus. And the building of such chains is precisely the task of all history. But Luke is also interested in the order of his narrative. Significantly, he seems to be referring to other Gospel writers as those who “have undertaken to set down an orderly account of the events” (Luke 1:1). Even though at first reading this would seem to imply that Luke believes that his narrative will be better than those others, in fact Luke never says such a thing, but rather declares that “I too decided