Bible Trivia - 10/3/2008

Question: Which version of the Lord’s prayer contains the line “For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory.”-Matthew’s or Luke’s?

Answer: Neither. (Matthew 6, Luke 11)

Comments: The Lord's prayer is the most famous prayer in the Christian tradition. It appears in both Matthew and Luke. (Matthew 6:9-13; Luke 11:2-4) The doxology of the prayer, however, is not present in Luke or the earliest manuscripts of Matthew's gospel. Some have speculated that it is based on I Chronicles 29:11:

"Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, indeed everything that is in the heavens and the earth; Yours is the dominion, O LORD, and You exalt Yourself as head over all. (I Chronicles 29:11, NASB)