What Do You Do With The Poor? Wrong Question

Good news can be funny, and in the least expected place too. Funny, but it’s the Bible, yes. Know what? At 5 early this morning, Tuesday, December 11 in Manila, surfing the Web looking for the poor, I suddenly realized the New Testament has a funny bone. Here’s what made me laugh, this verse coming bright from the Gospel of St Matthew 11:5 (English Standard Version 2001, semanticbible.com):
The blind receive their sight, and
the lame walk, and
the lepers are cleansed, and
the deaf hear, and
the dead are raised up, and
the poor have good news preached to them.

St Matthew, not fair!

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