Mark 14:7
For the poor you have always with you: and whensoever you will, you may do them good: but me you have not always.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
6But Jesus said: Let her alone, why do you molest her? She hath wrought a good work upon me.
8She hath done what she could: she is come beforehand 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 12:7Jesus therefore said: Let her alone, that she may keep it against the day of my burial.
John 16:5But I told you not these things from the beginning, because I was with you. And now I go to him that sent me, and none of you asketh me: Whither goest thou?
John 17:11And now I am not in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name whom thou has given me; that they may be one, as we also are.
2 Corinthians 9:13By the proof of this ministry, glorifying God for the obedience of your confession unto the gospel of Christ, and for the simplicity of your communicating unto them, and unto all.
James 2:14What shall it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but hath not works? Shall 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 →