Mark 14:7
You'll always have the poor with you, and you can help them whenever you want. But you won't always have me with you.
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In Context
8She did what she could: she anointed my body in anticipation of my burial.
Cross References
Matthew 25:35For I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me a drink. I was a stranger, and you invited me in.
John 12:7“Don't criticize her,” Jesus replied. “She did this in preparation for the day of my burial.
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?’
John 17:11I am leaving the world, but they will remain in the world; I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name, the name that you gave to me, so that they may be one, just as we are one.
2 Corinthians 9:13By giving this offering you show your true nature, and those who receive it will thank God for your obedience, since it shows your commitment to the good news of Christ and your generosity in giving to them and everyone else.
James 2:14My friends, what's the good of someone saying they trust in God when they don't do what's good and right? Can such “trust” save them?
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 →