Jesus encourages his disciples to call God their Father (6:6, 9). This reminds believers that God has adopted them as his children because of Jesus (see Rom. 8:15; Gal. 4:6). In Aramaic, the language spoken by Jesus, "Abba" was the word for father (see Mark 14:36).
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