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The Lord’s Prayer is the most recited, most memorized, and most studied text in the Bible. This prayer of Jesus, found in two versions in Matthew and Luke, has been extolled for its simplicity and beauty, for its reflection of “real life,” and for its vision of the consummated kingdom. It also contains several conundrums: what does it mean to “hallow” the Father’s name? What relationship does our...

teaches, “For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother” (Matt 12:50). Furthermore, he warns his followers that everyone who “acknowledges” him (Jesus) before others will be “acknowledged” by Jesus before his Father in heaven, but whoever denies him will also be denied (10:32–33). He has authority directly from his Father (11:27), and “no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal
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