Mark 14:7
The poor you have ever with you, and whenever you have the desire you may do them good: but me you have not for ever.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
6But Jesus said, Let her be; why are you troubling her? she has done a kind act to me.
Cross References
Matthew 25:35For I was in need of food, and you gave it to me: I was in need of drink, and you gave it to me: I was wandering, and you took me in;
John 12:7Then Jesus said, Let her be. Let her keep what she has for the day of my death.
John 16:5But now I am going to him who sent me; and not one of you says to me, Where are you going?
John 17:11And now I will be no longer in the world, but they are in the world and I come to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name which you have given to me, so that they may be one even as we are one.
2 Corinthians 9:13For when, through this work of giving, they see what you are, they give glory to God for the way in which you have given yourselves to the good news of Christ, and for the wealth of your giving to them and to all;
James 2:14What use is it, my brothers, for a man to say that he has faith, if he does nothing? will such a faith give him salvation?
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 →