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05/20/13 - Scrolls, The Lord's Prayer - No Comments
The best Greek manuscripts of Matthew’s Gospel do not include the doxology “For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen” indicating that it most likely was not part of the original prayer Jesus taught His disciples. The genesis for this doxology most likely came from the use of the Lord’s
“And do no bring us into the grasp of temptation, but deliver us from evil”
05/13/13 - Scrolls, The Lord's Prayer - 2 Comments
Jewish prayers, like Jewish poetry, made frequent use of parallelism where one statement reinforces another. In the Lord’s Prayer, the phrases “May Your name be sanctified,” “May Your kingdom come,” and “May Your will be done” are parallelisms where each statement reinforces the other. Jesus also used parallelism in the phrases “And lead us not
“Forgive us…, as we have forgiven…”
05/06/13 - Scrolls, The Lord's Prayer - No Comments
In the centuries leading up to the first century, Judaism underwent a transformation that produced a new religious sensitivity whereby people were to serve God with unconditional love, without any thought of reward.[1] This new religious sensitivity crystallized around the two biblical passages, “you shall love the Lord your God”[2] and “you shall love your
“Give us this day our daily bread”
04/29/13 - Scrolls, The Lord's Prayer - No Comments
Luke’s version of the Lord’s Prayer reads, “Give us (literally: be giving us continually) each day our daily bread.” Matthew’s, “Give us this day our daily bread,” better preserves the Hebraic idiom of Jesus’ entreaty, as well as Jesus’ radical conviction that each day contains its own blessing.[1] The unusual Hebrew phrase “our daily bread” (לחם