Again, Josephus links πρᾶγμα with παρατυγχάνω to argue for the superiority of his accounts with respect to truthfulness (cf. also Against Apion 1.56). By way of conclusion it can be said that in Josephus, a historian contemporary with Luke, the term πρᾶγμα can, among other things, refer to the “events” as well as to the distillation of those events that make up the historical narrative. Assuming (for the sake of argument) that there is a faithful correspondence between the events and their distillation,