John 12:8

For ye always have the poor with you, but ye do not always have me.

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In The King James Version

For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.

In Context

7Jesus therefore said, Let her alone. She has keep it for the day of my burial.

9Therefore a great multitude of the Jews knew that he is there. And they came, not only because of Jesus, but that they might also see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead.

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Cross References

Song of Solomon 5:6I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had withdrawn himself, [and] was gone. My soul had failed me when he spoke. I sought him, but I could not find him. I called him, but he gave me no answer.

Mark 14:7For ye always have the poor with you, and whenever ye may desire ye can do them well, but ye do not always have me.

John 12:35Jesus therefore said to them, Yet a little time the light is with you. Walk while ye have the light, so that darkness may not overcome you. And he who walks in the darkness knows not where he is going.

John 16:5But now I go to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, Where do thou go?

Matthew Henry on John 12:2-12

Mary Anoints Christ's Feet; Hypocrisy of Judas; Indignation of the Chief Priests. 1 Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. 2 There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him. 3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment. 4 Then… Read the whole commentary →

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