Mark 14:7
You will always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish you can do them good; but you will not always have me.
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
6But Jesus said: “Leave her alone! Why are you bothering her? She has done something useful to me.
8She did what she could. She has perfumed my body for the burying before the fact.
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 12:7So Jesus said: “Let her be; she has performed this with a view to my burial.
John 16:5“Now then, I am going away to Him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’
John 17:11Now 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, so that they may be one just as we are.
2 Corinthians 9:13—on the basis of the proof that this service gives, they are glorifying God for the obedience of your confession into the Gospel of Christ, and for the generosity of your sharing with them and everybody—
James 2:14What is the advantage, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? That faith cannot save him, can it?
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 →