Luke 11:3

3 Give us each day our daily bread. ^[a]

Luke 11:3 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 11:3

Give us day by day our daily bread.
] Or "for the day"; or "every day", as the Syriac version renders it; (See Gill on Matthew 6:11)

Luke 11:3 In-Context

1 He was praying in a certain place, and when He finished, one of His disciples said to Him, "Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples."

2 He said to them, "Whenever you pray, say: Father, Your name be honored as holy. Your kingdom come.

3 Give us each day our daily bread.

4 And forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone in debt to us. And do not bring us into temptation."

5 He also said to them: "Suppose one of you has a friend and goes to him at midnight and says to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,

Footnotes

• [a] Or our bread for tomorrow