Mark 14:7
The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them whenever you want. But you will not always have Me.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
6But Jesus said, “Leave her alone; why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful deed to Me.
8She has done what she could to anoint My body in advance of My burial.
Cross References
Matthew 25:35For I was hungry and you gave Me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me something to drink, I was a stranger and you took Me in,
John 12:7“Leave her alone,” Jesus replied. “She has kept this perfume in preparation for the day of My burial.
John 16:5Now, however, I am going to Him who sent Me; yet none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’
John 17:11I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, protect them by Your name, the name You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one.
2 Corinthians 9:13Because of the proof this ministry provides, the saints will glorify God for your obedient confession of the gospel of Christ, and for the generosity of your contribution to them and to all the others.
James 2:14What good is it, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith, but has no deeds? Can such 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 →