Stephen Streater wrote:
Jesus complains that they are just parroting prayers
without
really thinking about what they mean, and says they should
make up a relevant prayer each time. They ask him for an
example of what such a prayer would be like.
He gives them the Lord's prayer.
And that has become the most parroted prayer in Christendom, more than
any other prayer that he may have been complaining about. :-)
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