Mark 14:7
For 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.
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
In Context
6But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has worked a beautiful work for Me.
8This woman did what she could; she undertook beforehand to anoint My body for burial.
Cross References
Matthew 25:35for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in;
John 12:7But Jesus said, “Let her alone; she has kept this for the day of My burial.
John 16:5“But now I am going to Him who sent Me, and none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’
John 17:11And I am no longer in the world, yet these are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name which You have given to Me, that they may be one just as We are.
2 Corinthians 9:13while through the approved character of this ministry, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the gospel of Christ, and for the generosity of your sharing toward them and toward all,
James 2:14What does it profit, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Is that kind of faith able to 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 →