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The Lord's Prayer appears in two Gospels. In which one is it noticeably shorter, with fewer petitions?

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The answer

Matthew 6:9-13 gives the fuller, familiar prayer. Luke 11:2-4 is shorter in modern critical editions and most modern translations — it opens simply 'Father,' and lacks a few of the lines many people know by heart. Later manuscripts expand Luke toward Matthew, so in a King James Bible the two look much more alike.

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Why it’s interesting

The version recited in most churches is Matthew's. Luke's leaner prayer is a reminder that even the most memorized words in Christianity come down to us in more than one shape.

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