Luke's Preface: The first four verses of Luke’s Gospel make up what is sometimes called a “prologue” or “preface.” Since these verses, which are only one sentence in the Greek, actually function as a literary preface, it is probably best to regard them as Luke’s preface introducing his Gospel. Since Luke 3:1–2, however, also functions as an introduction to the Gospel and since some of the components found in the infancy narratives of chaps. 1–2 appear to be loosely connected, it has been suggested that Luke added chaps. 1–2 after having earlier written chaps. 3–24. This could very well have been the case. As it now stands the preface introduces the entire two-volume work (which Luke himself calls a “narrative” [diēgēsis]), although it chiefly has in view the first volume, the Gospel. The b…