John 12:8

You'll always have the poor with you, but you won't always have me here.”

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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

7“Don't criticize her,” Jesus replied. “She did this in preparation for the day of my burial.

9A large crowd of Jews had found out that he was there. They came there not just to see Jesus but because they wanted to see Lazarus, the man Jesus had raised from the dead.

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Cross References

Song of Solomon 5:6I opened up to my love, but he had left—he was gone! I was crushed as a result. I looked for him but I couldn't find him. I called him but he didn't answer.

Mark 14:7You'll always have the poor with you, and you can help them whenever you want. But you won't always have me with you.

John 12:35Jesus replied, “The light is here with you for a little longer. Walk while you have the light so that the darkness doesn't overtake you. Those who walk in the dark don't know where they're going.

John 16:5But now I'm going to the one who sent me, and yet not one of you is asking 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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