[AppyPappy]

Luke 1 Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled[Or been surely believed] among us,
just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word.
Therefore, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, it seemed good also to me to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus,

[jimtorr]

just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word.

This seems IMHO to imply that he was not personally an eyewitness to what he wrote about.