Mark 14:7
For you have the poor with you always; and whenever you choose, you can do them good; but me you have not always.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
6But Jesus said: Let her alone; why do you trouble her? She has performed a good work on me.
8She has done what she could; she has come beforehand to anoint my body for its burial.
Cross References
Matthew 25:35For I was hungry, and you gave me food; I was thirsty, and you gave me drink; I was a stranger, and you took me to your houses;
John 12:7Then Jesus said: Let her alone; she has kept this for the day of my burial.
John 16:5And now I go to him that sent me, and no one of you asks me, Whither goest thou?
John 17:11And I am no longer in the world; but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep in thy name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are one.
2 Corinthians 9:13(since through the proof which this service gives, they glorify God for your acknowledged subjection to the gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution for them, and for all;)
James 2:14What profit is there, my brethren, if any one say he has faith, and have not works? Can faith save him?
Matthew Henry on Mark 14:2-12
Christ Anointed at Bethany; Judas Engages to Betray Christ. 1 After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. 2 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people. 3 And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.… Read the whole commentary →