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Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.
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Verse 6. Judas did not then begin to be wicked: he followed Christ, not in heart, but in body only. This our Master tolerated, to give us a lesson to tolerate the bad, rather than divide the body. Saint Augustine in Joan. tract. 50.
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