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For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me.
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Verse 7. Christ here answers the apostles, by informing them that he should not always be with them, but would shortly leave them, as to his corporal presence, though he spiritually will remain with them, and their successors, to the end of time. Matthew 28.—Behold I am, and so forth He will not always be with them, so as to want their services. Ven. Bede.
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