NEW TESTAMENT

John 7:3

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His brothers therefore said to him, “Depart from here and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.

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Verse 3. These brethren of Christ were the relatives of the blessed Virgin, not her children. For, as in the sepuchre, were the body of our Saviour was deposited, no other mortal lay either before or since; so neither did the womb of Mary ever either before or after bear any other body but that of her divine Son. Saint Augustine, ut supra.

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