“For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.”
The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me — the you will always have the poor is not an argument against caring for the poor (Deuteronomy 15:11 is the source text, and the context there is a command to be generous precisely because the poor are always present) but a statement about the specific, unrepeatable moment of Jesus' presence. The poor can be helped at any time; Jesus' presence in this body, in this moment, cannot be extended.
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