The Lord's Prayer
Matthew 6:9-13
NLT“Pray like this: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come soon. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us today the food we need, and forgive us our sins, as we have forgiven those who sin against us. And don’t let us yield to temptation, but rescue us from the evil one.”
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The 2010 SBL Greek text uses epiousios in both Gospels; the Clementine Vulgate renders it supersubstantialem in Matthew and quotidianum in Luke.
Michael W.Holmes(ed.), SBL Greek New Testament(2010), Matthew 6:11 and Luke 11:3; Clementine Vulgate at the same verses, BibleGateway's Clementine Text Project reproduction.
The prayer Jesus teaches in Matthew 6:9–13, beginning Our Father and asking for bread and forgiveness.
More context
Matthew 6:9-13 gives the prayer Jesus teaches in the Sermon on the Mount; Luke 11:2-4 has a shorter form. It opens 'Our Father in heaven' and asks that God's name be kept holy. Addressing God as Father was not new: Isaiah 63:16 already addresses God as father. The petitions move from God's name, kingdom and will to daily bread, forgiveness and rescue from evil, and the prayer became the pattern of Christian worship.
Light
Matthew's prayer asks for our bread and forgiveness, placing shared dependence within address to the Father.
Shadow
Origen treats a merely bodily reading of the bread petition as mistaken, insisting on nourishment of the soul.