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The Jesus Prayer

  • 14-06-2020 5:51pm
    #1
    cnoc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 789 ✭✭✭


    This sounds a silly question! Whenever I search Google for the above prayer, it doesn't direct me to the proper Bible quotation. I enter the prayer in full (it is short) but I cannot get the Bible quotation?


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  • #2
    theological
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    cnoc wrote: »
    This sounds a silly question! Whenever I search Google for the above prayer, it doesn't direct me to the proper Bible quotation. I enter the prayer in full) it is short) but I cannot get the Bible quotation?


    John 17?

    Do you mean the prayer that Jesus prayed? Or something else?


  • #3
    cnoc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 789 ✭✭✭cnoc


    theological wrote: »
    John 17?

    Do you mean the prayer that Jesus prayed? Or something else?


    The prayer I enter is "Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me a sinner"'


  • #4
    Mancomb Seepgood
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    The Wikipedia article on the Jesus prayer includes a section on it's scriptural roots. I'm afraid I don't know enough of the history of the prayer to say whether it's accurate or not:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Prayer


  • #5
    Peregrinus
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    The prayer seems to have been in use long befoer it came to be known as the "Jesus prayer". Most probably it came to be called that because it starts with an invocation of the name of Jesus, which is the same way that the "Hail Mary" and the "Our Father" got their common names.


  • #6
    The Darkroom
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    It's taken from Luke 18 and the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collecter where he stands before God and says, "God be merciful to me a sinner". The prayer began in the short form "Jesus have mercy on me a sinner" and developed into the long form "Lord Jesus Christ Son of God, have mercy on me the sinner." I hope this helps.


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  • #7
    cnoc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 789 ✭✭✭cnoc


    The Darkroom wrote: »
    It's taken from Luke 18 and the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collecter where he stands before God and says, "God be merciful to me a sinner". The prayer began in the short form "Jesus have mercy on me a sinner" and developed into the long form "Lord Jesus Christ Son of God, have mercy on me the sinner." I hope this helps.


    Thank you got this information. Most helpful.

    Thank you all for your replies.


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