Mark 14:7
For the poor ye have always with you, and when ye will ye can do good to them; but me ye have not always.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
In Context
6And Jesus said: Let her alone; why do ye trouble her? She wrought a good work on me.
8She did what she could; she beforehand anointed my body for the preparation for burial.
Cross References
Matthew 25:35For I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger and ye took me in,
John 12:7Then said Jesus: Let her alone; she has kept it[12:7] to the day of my preparation for burial.
John 16:5And now I go to him who sent me; and none of you asks me: Whither goest thou?
John 17:11And I am no longer in the world; and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep those in thy name whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are,
2 Corinthians 9:13while by the proof of this ministration they glorify God for the obedience to your profession of the gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of the contribution to them, and to all;
James 2:14What does it profit, my brethren, if any one say that he has faith, and have not works? Can the 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 →