One sentence has two meanings?

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tien-sung

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Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our church and community.


The above sentence was the exercise given by my Bible study .
Our teacher told us, there were two meanings for the sentence, could you tell me the anwser?

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Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our church and community.


The above sentence was the exercise given by my Bible study .
Our teacher told us, there were two meanings for the sentence, could you tell me the anwser?

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What do you think the two meanings might be?
 

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1, Remember to pray for the people(who are sick) of our church and community.
2. Remember to pray for the people who are (sick of our church and community.)

Am I right?

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1, Remember to pray for the people(who are sick) of our church and community.
2. Remember to pray for the people who are (sick of our church and community.)

Am I right?

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Yes, you have understood the two meanings. Do you understand why the second one is quite amusing?
 

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I think the second one is an irony .
Could you show me how to put the punctuations to the sentence?
 
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