John 12:8

For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.”

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

7So Jesus said: “Let her be; she has performed this with a view to my burial.

9Then a large crowd of the Jews learned that He was there; and they came, not only because of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.

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Cross References

Mark 14:7You will always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish you can do them good; but you will not always have me.

John 12:35Then Jesus said to them: “The Light will be with you just a little longer. Walk while you have the light, so that darkness does not overtake you; the one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

John 16:5“Now then, I am going away to Him who sent me, yet 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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