John 12:8

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

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7Then said Jesus: Let her alone; she has kept it[12:7] to the day of my preparation for burial.

9A great multitude of the Jews therefore knew that he was there. And they came, not because of Jesus only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he raised from the dead.

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Cross References

Mark 14:7For the poor ye have always with you, and when ye will ye can do good to them; but me ye have not always.

John 12:35Jesus therefore said to them: Yet a little while is the light among you. Walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; and he that walks in the darkness knows not whither he goes.

John 16:5And now I go to him who sent me; and none 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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