Mark 14:7
For the poor, you have with you always. And whenever you wish, you are able to do good to them. But you do not have me always.
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In The King James Version
In Context
8But she has done what she could. She has arrived in advance to anoint my body for burial.
Cross References
Matthew 25:35For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in;
John 12:7But Jesus said: “Permit her, so that she may keep it against the day of my burial.
John 16:5But I did not tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you. And now I am going to him who sent me. And no one among you has asked me, ‘Where are you going?’
John 17:11And though I am not in the world, these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Father most holy, preserve them in your name, those whom you have given to me, so that they may be one, even as we are one.
2 Corinthians 9:13And so, through the evidence of this ministry, you glorify God by the obedience of your confession in the Gospel of Christ, and by the simplicity of your communion with them and with everyone,
James 2:14My brothers, what benefit is there if someone claims to have faith, but he does not have works? How would faith be able to 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 →