Worship Reflections on Matthew

REFLECTION (July 27)         Ask and it will be given you? The prayer which Jesus taught his disciples is recorded in two Gospels – Matthew and Luke. And as you might expect each version is a little different. Matthew’s version tends to follow standard Jewish liturgy.  Luke’s version is the shorter and probably earlier form of the Lord’s prayer.  It is typical of the style of Luke which is more colloquial.  Both Matthew and Luke appear to have used the same collected sayings of…