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The Lord's Prayer, is the maist kenspeckle prayer in the Christian releegion. It is kent as the Oor Faither an aw (frae the first twa wirds o the prayer) or Pater noster (the Laitin for "Oor Faither").[1]
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The Lord's Prayer is the prayer that Jesus teacht the fowk tae say whan prayin tae God. It can be fund in twa places in the New Testament: ane in the Gospel o Matthew (Chaipter 6, verses 9-13)[2] that's pairt o the Sermon on the Mount, an the ither in the Gospel o Luke (Chaipter 11: verses 2-4)[3].
The prayer haes been pitten intae Aramaic, Jesus's mither tongue[4] and ower intae mony leids ower twa millenia. The Bible haes been pitten ower intae Inglis mony times ower the years.[5] Tharefore, thare's a wheen dversions uised that differs a bittie frae ilk ither. Mony theologians amang the different Christian tradeetions haes analysed Jesus's prayer in detail. John Wesley, early Methodist said it 'conteens aw we can reasonably pray for'.[6] Former Archbishop o Canterbury, Rowan Williams said it wis the Christian faith 'in a nutshell' and 'a prayer fur tae set us free'.[7] William Barclay, Scots meenister wrote in 1976 about the prayer helpin fowk tae mak God's kingdom on earth, 'doin God's will'.[8] Pope Francis haed creaut controversy whan saiyin God didnae 'lead' fowk intae temptation, an it sud say 'dinnae leat us faw intae temptation'.[9]
The Kirk gies three versions o the Lord's prayer:[10] A Scots New Testament wis also published by Lorimer in 2012. [11]
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The tradeetional an best-kent version in Inglis is the ane frae the "Book of Common Prayer" (1662):[12][13]
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