Prayer taught by Jesus to his disciples and used by all Christians as the basic prayer in common worship.
It appears in two forms in the New Testament: a shorter version in Luke 11:24, and a longer version, part of the Sermon on the Mount , in Matthew 6:913. In both contexts it is offered as a model of how to pray. It is sometimes called the Pater Noster (Latin: "Our Father") for its first two words.