NEW TESTAMENT

John 12:8

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For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.”

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Verse 8. Me you have not always with you. He speaks of his corporal presence; for by his majesty, by his providence, by his ineffable and invincible grace, he ever fulfils what he said, (Matthew 28) Behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world. Saint Augustine tract. 50. in Joan.

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