Lord's Prayer Taught
Life of Jesus · Draft · BSB
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Date: Judea, Perea and the road to Jerusalem. A guided comparison of Gospel accounts, not a measured calendar or a claim that every parallel follows the same sequence.
After Jesus prays, a disciple asks him to teach them. He gives a prayer concerning God’s name and kingdom, daily provision, forgiveness and testing, then teaches persistence and the Father’s generosity.
Luke’s prayer is shorter than Matthew’s form in the BSB. Read it with the midnight request and the Father’s gift of the Spirit; the teaching is more than a formula detached from trust.
Primary Scripture
11:1 One day in a place where Jesus had just finished praying, one of His disciples requested, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.”
11:2 So Jesus told them, “When you pray, say: ‘Father, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come.
11:3 Give us each day our daily bread.
11:4 And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us. And lead us not into temptation.’”
11:5 Then Jesus said to them, “Suppose one of you goes to his friend at midnight and says, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,
11:6 because a friend of mine has come to me on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him.’
11:7 And suppose the one inside answers, ‘Do not bother me. My door is already shut, and my children and I are in bed. I cannot get up to give you anything.’
11:8 I tell you, even though he will not get up to provide for him because of his friendship, yet because of the man’s persistence, he will get up and give him as much as he needs.
11:9 So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
11:10 For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
11:11 What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead?
11:12 Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?
11:13 So if you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”
Related Scripture
Matthew supplies a parallel form for comparison, rather than words to silently insert into Luke.
Location evidence
Luke explicitly leaves the place of prayer unnamed. Matthew’s parallel prayer does not identify this particular venue.
No event map marker is assigned. Do not infer an exact venue from related places.
For the class
How do the illustrations after the prayer shape the way it is prayed?
Interpretation and reuse
Narrative order is a reading arrangement, not a proven chronology. Dates retain their stated uncertainty. An identified locality does not establish the exact venue or prove an event. Region extents and routes are illustrative, not surveyed boundaries or ancient roads. Draft material has not completed editorial review.
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Teaching stops, summaries and regional extents are original editorial content of this atlas.
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