After the Last Supper and just before Jesus Christ was arrested, He not only prayed for His disciples but also for the future believers and their unity. This is recorded in John 17:
Jesus Prays for All Believers
20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.
25 “Righteous Father, though the world does not know you, I know you, and they know that you have sent me. 26 I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.”
(John 17:20-26)
The identifier of John 17:20-26 is 581.
| Book# | Chapter# | Verse# | Sum | |
| John 17:20 | 43 | 17 | 20 | 80 |
| John 17:21 | 43 | 17 | 21 | 81 |
| John 17:22 | 43 | 17 | 22 | 82 |
| John 17:23 | 43 | 17 | 23 | 83 |
| John 17:24 | 43 | 17 | 24 | 84 |
| John 17:25 | 43 | 17 | 25 | 85 |
| John 17:26 | 43 | 17 | 26 | 86 |
| 581 |
The divisors of 581 are in the set {1, 7, 83, 581}, and the arithmetic mean of these elements is 168. But 168 is the identifier of the Lord’s Prayer in the Gospel of Luke.
| Book# | Chapter# | Verse# | Sum | |
| Luke 11:2 | 42 | 11 | 2 | 55 |
| Luke 11:3 | 42 | 11 | 3 | 56 |
| Luke 11:4 | 42 | 11 | 4 | 57 |
| 168 |
Since 168 is the arithmetic mean of 581, it is essentially telling us that the gist of Jesus’message in John 17:20-26, which is UNITY, equates to the Lord’s Prayer. In other words, it is the Lord’s Prayer that is the fundamental instrument in uniting Christians.
Conclusion. When we pray the Lord’s Prayer at the prescribed times {10.35 am, 10.53 am, 1.35 pm, 1.53 pm, 3.15 pm, 3.51 pm, 5.13 pm, 5.31 pm}, we are praying with one accord.
The Lord's Prayer: A Mathematician's Creed 