The copies

Witness

Matthew jumps a verse. The prayer stops. Two strokes decide God or He.

Walk the copies. KJV often keeps the longer reading. BSB follows the older books. When a post says theft, we show you the page. A missing verse is often still in Mark. This is not a decoder ring for villains.

The gaps

A line sits in the KJV and not in the oldest copy. It is often still in Mark or Luke.

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The joins

An Amen was added. A hard stop was kept. Sweat like blood is argued. A woman the church would not lose.

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The words

The copies disagree on God or He, on blood, on three that testify, and on God or Son.

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The joins · 01 of 04 · The church said Amen

The ending of the Lord’s Prayer

The prayer Jesus taught ends at the evil one. Kingdom, power, glory is how the church learned to say Amen.

King James (1611)
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
Berean Standard Bible
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

ὅτι σοῦ ἐστιν ἡ βασιλεία καὶ ἡ δύναμις καὶ ἡ δόξα εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας· ἀμήν

How it sat

  1. 01The prayer He taught

    Matthew 6:9

    He teaches them to say Our Father, to ask for daily bread, to forgive, and to pray for deliverance. The oldest Matthew ends the prayer at the evil one. That is the shape Luke keeps too.

  2. 02Luke never had the Amen

    Luke 11:4

    The lines are Father, bread, and forgive. Lead us not. Luke’s early copies do not add kingdom, power, glory. Two Gospels agreeing is not a conspiracy.

  3. 03The church already sang it

    1 Chronicles 29:11

    Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory. David’s praise is older than Matthew’s copies. The Didache taught the church to close that way.

In these copies

  • Byzantine majority
  • KJV, WEB
  • the Didache (a form of the line, as worship)

Not in these copies

  • Sinaiticus
  • Vaticanus
  • Bezae (D)
  • early Latin
  • BSB, ASV, NIV

Read it this way

In the oldest Matthew the prayer stops at “deliver us from the evil one.” That is a hard stop, not a cut. Luke’s prayer, in every early copy, never had the golden close either. Two Gospels carry one shape of the prayer. The prayer Jesus taught ends on a plea.

The close is worship. The Didache — a very old church manual — already uses a similar Amen when the church prays. Kingdom, power, glory: that is how you finish a prayer you have just prayed with other people. Later copies of Matthew wrote the Sunday ending back onto the page so the Gospel would already contain the Amen the church could not stop saying.

KJV keeps the worship form. BSB keeps the older Gospel form. Nothing was taken from His mouth. The church’s Amen was written onto the page, because they meant it.

Still on the page: Luke 11:4 — Luke’s prayer never has that closing praise in the early copies.

Some sayThey cut the ending off the Lord’s Prayer.

Nothing was taken from His mouth. The church’s Amen was written onto the page.

  • KJV

    on the page

  • WEB

    on the page

  • BSB

    shorter

  • ASV

    shorter

Open Matthew 6

The line the text already walks — that is Foretold. Words you already say out loud sit in Words with weight. Witness is when the copies do not match.