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Provided additional information regarding parallel account in Luke, elements of the prayer and the doxology at the end of the prayer.
(Matthew 6:9-13 KJV)
(Matthew 6:9-13 KJV)
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[[Image:Dellarobbia1.jpg|200px|right]]
The Lord's Prayer is by far the best known prayer among Christians worldwide, and has been translated into hundreds of different languages. It is worth remarking, however, that while [[Jesus]] himself specifically instructs His followers to pray in private, this prayer is frequently recited in public, and has been incorporated into the services and liturgy of many Christian denominations:
The Lord's Prayer is by far the best known prayer among Christians worldwide, and has been translated into hundreds of different languages. It is worth remarking, however, that while [[Jesus]] himself specifically instructs His followers to pray in private, this prayer is frequently recited in public, and has been incorporated into the services and liturgy of many Christian denominations:
(Matthew 6:5-7 KJV)
(Matthew 6:5-7 KJV)
A parallel account at Luke 11:2-4 follows a similar pattern. The fact that it is not identical indicates that Christ's intention was not to provide a static prayer that would be repeated verbatim but rather a model, or outline, of appropriate topics to be prayed for. This is supported by Christ's admonition to his listeners:
:"And whenever you pray, you must not keep on repeating set phrases, as the heathen do, for they suppose that they will be heard in accordance with the length of their prayers." (Matthew 6:7 ''The New Testament in the Language of the People'' Charles B. Williams)
Both prayers include the following elements:
*Request for God's name to be hallowed, or sanctified
*Request for God's Kingdom to come
*Request for personal needs to be met
*Request for forgiveness of sins
*Request for avoiding temptation, falling prey to Satan
This prayer would not have been innovative or revolutionary to Christ's listeners as these would have been things they should have already been praying for, each element being solidly based on the Scriptures then available to the Jews.
According to Harper's Bible Dictionary, the doxology at the end of the prayer is missing the oldest and best manuscripts and is not original to the Lord's prayer. Translations that do not add the doxology include:
*The Holy Bible - Douay-Rheims
*The New Testament in the Language of the People
*The Oxford Annotated Bible - Revised Standard Edition
*The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
*Good News Bible - Today's English Version
*Holy Bible - American Standard Version
*The Emphatic Diaglott Interlinear Translation of Vatican Manuscript #1209
*The Complete Bible - An American Translation
== Greek version ==
== Greek version ==
1. sometimes the present form ἀφίεμεν is found in place of the perfective ἀφήκαμεν.
1. sometimes the present form ἀφίεμεν is found in place of the perfective ἀφήκαμεν.
== References ==
*Harper's Bible Dictionary (p. 574-576)
== See also ==
== See also ==