Mark 14:7
For ye have the poor always with you, and whensoever ye will ye can do them good: but me ye have not always.
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
6But Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.
8She hath done what she could; she hath anointed my body beforehand for the burying.
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 12:7Jesus therefore said, Suffer her to keep it against the day of my burying.
John 16:5But now I go unto him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?
John 17:11And I am no more in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name which thou hast given me, that they may be one, even as we [are].
2 Corinthians 9:13seeing that through the proving [of you] by this ministration they glorify God for the obedience of your confession unto the gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of [your] contribution unto them and unto all;
James 2:14What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that 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 →