Q 01/05

The Lord's Prayer appears in which two New Testament gospels?

A) Mark and John

B) Matthew and Mark

C) Matthew and Luke

D) Luke and John

Answer · why

C) Matthew and Luke

The two versions differ, and the Matthean form is the one most Christians actually recite.

Q 02/05

How many petitions does the Lord's Prayer contain?

A) Seven

B) Three

C) Five

D) Ten

Answer · why

A) Seven

The first three address God; the remaining four concern human needs such as daily bread and forgiveness.

Q 03/05

The closing doxology 'For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory' is absent from which text?

A) The first-century Didache text

B) The earliest manuscripts of Matthew

C) The 1662 Book of Common Prayer

D) The 1611 King James Version

Answer · why

B) The earliest manuscripts of Matthew

Protestants usually add it; the first-century Didache does include a doxology, so the habit is ancient even if the words are not original.

Q 04/05

What is the Latin name of the Lord's Prayer, taken from its first two words?

A) Ave Maria

B) Pater Noster

C) Gloria Patri

D) Agnus Dei

Answer · why

B) Pater Noster

A church on the Mount of Olives displays the prayer on tiled panels in well over a hundred languages.

Q 05/05

The rare Greek word 'epiousios' in the Lord's Prayer is usually translated into English as what?

A) Holy

B) Daily

C) Eternal

D) Heavenly

Answer · why

B) Daily

It modifies 'bread', and scholars still argue about what it originally meant.