I was always intrigued by this Statement .... 

>For the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory are yours Now and Forever. Amen.

This is usually said in a Catholic Church after the Lord’s Prayer after the words...  Deliver us from Evil , as recorded in Matthew Chapter 6 

But the sentence about Power does not exist anywhere  in the current translations of the Bible. So strange.  Actually, as a kid, It was my favourite few words spoken in Church.... “The Power.”

>The Power 

For The Kingdom and the “Power” and the Glory are yours .... Now and Forever.

It’s awesome....  The Power

Even if you don’t believe in God, these words are awesome. Filled with Power.

I  imagined a Zeus like God, with his robes billowing in the wind, riding on the clouds wielding his Lightning bolts when I proclaimed these words. The Power ... The Power is yours, now and Forever.....

So awesome. 

When you do a little research you learn that these words  actually existed in some ancient  manuscripts. But I’d like to know if they existed in the original Aramaic and Hebrew version of Matthew... not some later  Greek or Latin edits.

So I did some digging and found this great article: https://av1611.com/kjbp/faq/holland_mt6_13.html

Matthew 6:13 - "For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever."

>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.

>The passage in question is the conclusion of what is commonly known as The Lord's Prayer. The prayer ends with the doxology, "For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen." This phrase is found in the majority of Greek manuscripts, the Greek Textus Receptus and Majority Text, and is the reading of early English versions, the KJV, and the NKJV. It is not found in the main body of the Critical Text or most modern versions.

Hmmm Greek eh ... what about the original in Aramaic or Hebrew ???

>It is found in the majority of all existing Greek lectionaries. Therefore, the weight of the Greek witnesses argues for its inclusion and validity.

>It is likewise found in several ancient translations such as ...the Old Syrian (Syriac/Aramaic) , and some Coptic versions. The Syriac Peshitta (second/third century ) reads, "And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever: Amen."

>Therefore, the reading embraces antiquity as well as geographical support.

Ah hah .... I knew it .... this Phrase was not added later. These are the original and oldest words spoken by Jesus when he taught his followers how to pray. So kind of important, I’d say....

For the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory are yours. now and Forever.

This is  the original version....  more powerful words were never spoken.  


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Source: https://thelavmuse.com/2018/04/29/chapter-26-zeus-lightning-bolt/

The Lord’s Prayer (Our Father) in Aramaic, as spoken by Jesus (Yeshu ha Notzri) in the 1st Century 

https://youtu.be/ROM5EpCQUlg

Source: Youtube 


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We also have this awesome text from the ancient Nag Hammadi Library.

The Perception of Understanding : The Concept of the Great Power

>He who will know our great Power will become invisible, and fire will not be able to consume him. But it will purge and destroy all of your possessions. For everyone in whom my form will appear will be saved, from (the age of) seven days up to one hundred and twenty years. (Those) whom I constrained to gather all that is fallen - and the writings of our great Power, in order that he may inscribe your name in our great light - and their thoughts and their works may be ended, that they may be purged, and be scattered and be destroyed, and be gathered in the place which no one in it sees. But you will see me, and you will prepare your dwelling places in our great Power.

>Know how what has departed came to be, in order that you may know how to discern what lives to become: of what appearance that aeon is, or what kind it is, or how it will come to be. Why do you not ask what kind you will become, (or) rather how you came to be?

>Discern what size the water is, that it is immeasurable (and) incomprehensible, both its beginning and its end. It supports the earth; it blows in the air where the gods and the angels are. But in him who is exalted above all these there is the fear and the light, and in him are my writings revealed. I have given them as a service to the creation of the physical things, for it is not possible for anyone to stand without that One, nor is it possible for the aeon to live without him. It is he who possesses what is in him by discerning it in purity.

>Then behold the Spirit and know where he is. He gave himself to men that they may receive life from him every day, since he has his life within him; he gives to them all.....

Source: http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/greatpower.html

There are many references to The Power also in the New Testament, specifically when Jesus is asked who he is ...

Jesus Faces the Sanhedrin ( Mark 14:62)

> … But Jesus remained silent and made no reply. Again the high priest questioned Him, “Are You the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One?” 62“I am,” said Jesus, “and you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power and coming with the clouds of heaven.” 63At this, the high priest tore his clothes and declared, “Why do we need any more witnesses? 

Source: https://biblehub.com/mark/14-62.htm

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