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Matthewchapter 6

34 verses · Matthew, by tradition · AD 50 to 65 · The Gospels

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Matthew 6— Greek word study

How to read a word below: the Greekword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, a widely used lookup this site follows (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Greek does not, angle brackets mark the Greek’s own grammatical elements that English renders as separate words, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.

Matthew 6:13· Greek and glosses: STEP Bible

Note on the text · Matthew 6:13

The ending everyone says out loud is missing from the earliest manuscripts of Matthew, but it is not a modern flourish either: the church was already praying a doxology at the end of the Lord's Prayer by around AD 100.

The witnesses, and what each reads here
  • The earliest Greek manuscripts, including Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Vaticanus, and Codex Bezae · 4th, 5th centuriesThe prayer ends at "deliver us from evil."
  • The Latin Vulgate tradition · 4th century onwardNo doxology, the standard Bible of the Western church ended the prayer without it.
  • The Didache · about AD 100 (surviving in later copies)Gives the Lord's Prayer with a closing doxology in a shorter form, without the full three-fold "kingdom, power, and glory."
  • The Byzantine majority of Greek manuscripts · 9th, 15th centuries"For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen." This is the reading behind the KJV.
  • Early expositions of the Lord's Prayer by Tertullian, Origen, and Cyprian · 3rd centuryWalk through the prayer petition by petition and say nothing about a closing doxology, striking silence from writers whose whole purpose was to explain the prayer line by line.
What the manuscripts read here →
καὶkaiAndG2532μὴmenotG3361εἰσενέγκῃςeisenegkesmay you leadG1533ἡμᾶςhemasusG3165εἰςeisintoG1519πειρασμόν,peirasmontemptation,G3986ἀλλὰallabutG235ῥῦσαιrhusaido deliverG4506ἡμᾶςhemasusG3165ἀπὸapofromG575τοῦtoutheG3588πονηροῦponerouevil’G4190
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