John 12:8

For the poor you have with you always, but Me you do not have always.” 1 The Plot to Kill Lazarus

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7But Jesus said, “Let her alone; she has kept this for the day of My burial.

9Now a large crowd from the Jews knew that He was there; and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might also see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.

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Cross References

Mark 14:7For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish you are able to do them good; but you do not always have Me.

John 12:35Then Jesus said to them, “ For yet a little while longer the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you; he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going.

John 16:5“But now I am going to Him who sent Me, and none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’

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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