Luke 11:2
 Luke 11:2 
New International Version (©2011)
He said to them, "When you pray, say: "'Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Jesus said, "This is how you should pray: "Father, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come soon.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And he said to them, “When you pray, say: “Father, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
And He said to them, "When you pray, say: 'Father, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He said to them, "Whenever you pray, say: Father, Your name be honored as holy. Your kingdom come.

International Standard Version (©2012)
So he told them, "Whenever you pray you are to say, 'Father, may your name be kept holy. May your kingdom come.

NET Bible (©2006)
So he said to them, "When you pray, say: Father, may your name be honored; may your kingdom come.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
Yeshua said to them, “When you pray, you shall say thus: 'Our Father, who are in Heaven'

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Jesus told them, "When you pray, say this: Father, let your name be kept holy. Let your kingdom come.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he said unto them, When you pray, say, Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.

American King James Version
And he said to them, When you pray, say, Our Father which are in heaven, Hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.

American Standard Version
And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Father, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to them: When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come.

Darby Bible Translation
And he said to them, When ye pray, say, Father, thy name be hallowed; thy kingdom come;

English Revised Version
And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Father, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he said to them, When ye pray, say, Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.

Weymouth New Testament
So He said to them, "When you pray, say, 'Father may Thy name be kept holy; let Thy Kingdom come;

World English Bible
He said to them, "When you pray, say, 'Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on Earth, as it is in heaven.

Young's Literal Translation
And he said to them, 'When ye may pray, say ye: Our Father who art in the heavens; hallowed be Thy name: Thy reign come; Thy will come to pass, as in heaven also on earth;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

11:1-4 Lord, teach us to pray, is a good prayer, and a very needful one, for Jesus Christ only can teach us, by his word and Spirit, how to pray. Lord, teach me what it is to pray; Lord, stir up and quicken me to the duty; Lord, direct me what to pray for; teach me what I should say. Christ taught them a prayer, much the same that he had given before in his sermon upon the mount. There are some differences in the words of the Lord's prayer in Matthew and in Luke, but they are of no moment. Let us in our requests, both for others and for ourselves, come to our heavenly Father, confiding in his power and goodness.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 2. - And he said unto them, When ye pray, say. The older authorities leave out the clauses erased. The prayer, as originally reported by St. Luke, no doubt stood as follows. The erased clauses were filled in by early scribes from the longer formula supplied by St. Matthew, and spoken at an earlier period by the Master: -

"Our Father which, art in heaven,

Hallowed be thy Name.

Thy kingdom come.

Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.

Give us day by day our daily bread.

And forgive us our sins;

for we also forgive every one

that is indebted to us.

And lead us not into temptation;

but deliver us from evil."

It has been said that our Lord has derived from the Talmud the thoughts embodied in this prayer. If this could be shown to be the case, it would in no way detract from its admitted value and beauty. Indeed, the earthly training of Jesus would naturally lead him to make use of whatever was true and practical in the teaching of the schools of his people. There is no doubt that in the New Testament many a gem of exquisite beauty could be found, drawn from that strange, weird Talmud, where the highest wisdom is mingled with the wildest errors and conceits. But in the matter of the "Lord's Prayer," it must be borne in mind that only a comparatively small portion of its thoughts can be traced to Talmudical sources, and there can be no positive certainty as to their priority, since the Mishna was not committed to writing before the second century of the Christian era, and the Gemara later still. The Lord's Prayer, in the report of St. Luke, contains five petitions. Two have reference to the love of God, and three to human needs. Our Father which art in heaven. It was not now uncommon in Jewish liturgies and prayers to invoke the Eternal of Israel under the dear name of "Father." "Thou, O Lord, art our Father." Hallowed be thy Name. Not only do we pray that the Name of God may be to us a sacred precious thing, not lightly used in trivial speech, still less in bitterness and anger, only in holy reverent prayer; but we include in these words a prayer, too, that tho our thoughts of God may be pure, lofty, holy. Thy kingdom come. No Messianic kingdom, in the old Jewish meaning of the word, is signified here. It is a far onlook to the close of this dispensation, which close, we believe, is hindered by human sin and perversity. It is the prayer for the end, when there will be no more tears and partings, no more sorrow and sin. It tells of the same feeling which John, at the close of the Revelation, expressed in "Even so, come, Lord Jesus." Instead of these words, Gregory of Nyssa, in his manuscript of St. Luke, appears to have read, "Thy Holy Spirit come upon us, and purify us."


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he said unto them,.... That is Jesus, as the Syriac and Persic versions express, who directed his speech to all the disciples; for though but one of them addressed him, it was in the name of the rest: and besides, the instructions Christ was about to give concerned them all, even those that heard them before, and those that had not:

when ye pray, say, our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth; the last petition is left out in the Vulgate Latin; See Gill on Matthew 6:9, Matthew 6:10.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

2-4. (See on [1633]Mt 6:9-13).


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The Lord's Prayer
1And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said to him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples. 2And he said to them, When you pray, say, Our Father which are in heaven, Hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, as in heaven, so in earth. 3Give us day by day our daily bread.

Matthew 6:9 "This, then, is how you should pray: "'Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,
Luke 11:1 One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples."