Putting to Test the Recovery Version

[testallthings]

I was reading my last post when I noticed 2 mistakes (mine).
The footnote I quoted is evidently wrong, and the citation is not accurate. I apologize for my inaccuracies. I repost my last post with some modifications highlighted in bold.

Originally Posted by testallthings

Pray that ye enter not into temptation


Act 1:14 These all with one accord continued stedfastly in prayer, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren. (ASV)


Commenting on this verse, in the RcV, W. Lee says (footnote 1:14.1) that, "Before the Lord's death the disciples had no interest in praying for spiritual things”. The verses he provides for demonstrating his point are Luke 22:40, 45-46.

Luk 22:40 And when he was at the place, he said unto them, Pray that ye enter not into temptation.
Luk 22:45 And when he rose up from his prayer, he came unto the disciples, and found them sleeping for sorrow,
Luk 22:46 and said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, that ye enter not into temptation. (ASV)

Now, how many times Christians (including W. Lee), throughout the entire Church age, were so tired that they didn't pray, so tired that they didn't read the Bible? Could we conclude that they had “no interest in praying for spiritual things”? As long as we live in this mortal body there will be moments (I wish they were only moments!) of weakness. Verse 45 says that they were sleeping for sorrow.

One of the first questions the disciples asked the Lord was to teach them how to pray.
Luk 11:1 And it came to pass, as he was praying in a certain place, that when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, even as John also taught his disciples.
Luk 11:2 And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Father, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come.
Luk 11:3 Give us day by day our daily bread.
Luk 11:4 And forgive us our sins; for we ourselves also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And bring us not into temptation.
The last sentence, And bring us not into temptation, echoes the Lord's charge in Luke 22:40, 46.

There were certainly things they didn't understand until Christ was resurrected, but it is unimaginable that the disciples, after spending more than three years with a living example of what a praying Man should be, had “no interest in praying for spiritual things”.

Father, bring us not into temptation, the temptation of finding faults in others based on a word or an incident. Father, bring us not into temptation, the temptation of becoming unfair judges of our fellow brothers and sisters.