Next Jesus offers teaching on prayer (11:1–13). Prayer is an important part of Luke’s Gospel, and Jesus’s example of prayer and John’s instructions on prayer stimulate the disciples to ask for help in praying (11:1). The Lukan form of the Lord’s Prayer is shorter than the Matthean form. The differences between the two accounts may be due to editorial modification of the prayer by the authors of the different Gospels, but it is also likely that Jesus taught the prayer on more than one occasion. The word “Father” comes from the Aramaic Abba, which emphasizes the intimate relationship between the believer and God. Two requests follow that center on God’s purposes. “Hallowed be your name” means that disciples are to pray that God’s name (i.e., his person and character) is honored, exalted, an…