Luke 11:3

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Luke 11:1-13

Prayer is one of the great laws of natural religion. That man is a brute, is a monster, that never prays, that never gives glory to his Maker, nor feels his favour, nor owns his dependence upon him. One great design therefore of Christianity is to assist us in prayer, to enforce the duty upon us, to instruct us in it, and encourage us to expect advantage by it. Now here, I. We find Christ himself praying in a certain place, probably where he used to pray, Luke 11:1. As God, he was prayed to;... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Luke 11:1-4

11:1-4 Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he stopped, one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples." He said to them, "When you pray, say, O Father, let your name be held in reverence. Let your kingdom come. Give to us each day our bread for the day. And forgive us our sins as we too forgive everyone who is in debt to us. And lead us not into temptation." It was the regular custom for a Rabbi to teach his disciples a simple... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 11:3

Give us day by day our daily bread. Or "for the day"; or "every day", as the Syriac version renders it; See Gill on Matthew 6:11 read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 11:1-5

Teach us to pray - See the nature of prayer, with an ample explanation of the different parts of the Lord's Prayer, treated of in Matthew 6:5-16 ; (note). The prayer related here by Luke is not precisely the same as that mentioned by Matthew; and indeed it is not likely that it was given at the same time. That in Matthew seems to have been given after the second passover; and this in Luke was given probably after the third passover, between the feasts of tabernacles, and the dedication. It... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 11:1-13

The Lord ' s teaching on the subject of prayer. Again the scene is far away from Jerusalem; no special note of time or place enables us to fix the scene or date with any exactness. Somewhere in the course of the last journeyings towards Jerusalem, related especially in this Gospel, did this scene and its teaching take place. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 11:1-13

Christ teaching his disciples to pray. "He was praying in a certain place." Might not he have dispensed with the special season and act of prayer? Was not his whole life one continuous act of prayer? Did he not always realize that communion with the Father to which praying is the means? Yes; but even he needed the time and the place of prayer. "Made in all things like to his brethren," he, too, required to recruit the energy; he, too, for power with God and men, must lift up his eyes to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 11:1-13

Lessons on prayer. Luke takes us from "the one thing needful," which Mary's loving waiting on her Lord illustrates, to a kindred subject, viz. the lessons on prayer which Jesus gave his disciples. He had been enjoying what we should now call a " retreat " with them, and had himself led the devotions of the little band. Struck by the beauty of his petitions, one of his disciples asked him to teach them to pray, as John had taught his disciples. To this appeal Jesus responds at once, and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 11:2-4

The true service of the Lord's Prayer. It is a very painful and pitiful thing that words which came from the lips of the great Master of the spiritual and the living should have been allowed to degenerate into an unspiritual and lifeless form. That this has been the case to a large extent with the "Pater-noster" is a lamentable fact. It is very doubtful whether Jesus Christ ever intended these words which he gave to his disciples to be a permanent formula for the Christian Church. It is... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 11:3

Give us day by day our daily bread . There would need no comment upon this—at first sight—quite simple prayer, but for the word ἐπιούσιος , rendered "daily." This word, in all Greek literature, occurs only in these two evangelists, in SS . Matthew and Luke's report of the Lord's Prayer. Now, does this strange word mean "daily," as our translation gives it; or is it the rough Greek rendering of some Aramaic word of a loftier signification? Most probably our Lord was speaking Aramaic in... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Luke 11:2-4

See this passage explained in the notes at Matthew 6:9-13.Luke 11:4For we also forgive ... - This is somewhat different from the expression in Matthew, though the sense is the same. The idea is, that unless we forgive others, God will not forgive us; and unless we come to him “really” forgiving all others, we cannot expect pardon. It does not mean that by forgiving others we “deserve” forgiveness ourselves, or “merit it,” but that this is a disposition or state of mind without which God cannot... read more

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