Tuesday, January 5, 2010

The Gospel and Didache Texts of the Lord's Prayer

This chart from The Lord's Prayer: A Text in Tradition shows the evolution of the Lord's Prayer in the three texts it appears in, plus parallels in the gospel of John. The Didache and Matthew are from roughly the same time and place. Luke and John came later. The Didache presents the prayer as a liturgical prayer (as well as a private prayer to be recited three times a day), which could explain its addition of the ending doxology in contrast to Matthew and Luke, who present it mostly as a personal prayer.


Line

Matthew 6:9-13

Luke 11:2-4

Didache

John

1

Our Father

who is in

the heavens

Father

Our Father

who is in

heaven

17:1, 3

17:11, 21, 24-25

2

may your name

be hallowed

may your name

be hallowed

may your name

be hallowed

17:11-12

17:26

3

May your

kingdom come.

May your

kingdom come.

May your

kingdom come.

17:1-2

4

May your will

come to pass

as in heaven

also on earth.


May your will

come to pass

as in heaven

also on earth.

17:4

5

Our bread for

the morrow (?)

give us today

Our bread for

the morrow (?)

give us each day

Our bread for

the morrow (?)

give us today

6:32-35

6

and forgive

us our debts

as we also

have forgiven

our debtors

and forgive

us our sins

as we also

forgive

everyone

indebted to us;

and forgive

us our debt

as we also

forgive

our debtors;

17:17

7

and do not

lead

us into test,

and do not

lead

us into test.

And do not

lead

us into test,

17:11-15

8

but rescue us

from the evil

one (?).


but rescue us

from the evil

one (?).

17:15

9



for yours is

the power

and the glory

for ever. Amen.




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