John 12:8

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

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7Then Jesus said: Let her alone; she has kept this for the day of my burial.

9Therefore, a great multitude of the Jews learned that he was there; and they came, not on account of Jesus only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.

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Cross References

Mark 14:7For you have the poor with you always; and whenever you choose, you can do them good; but me you have not always.

John 12:35Then Jesus said to them: Yet a little while is the light with you: walk while you have the light, lest the darkness overtake you. For he that walks in the darkness knows not whither he goes.

John 16:5And now I go to him that sent me, and no one of you asks me, Whither goest thou?

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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