Mark 14:7
For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
King James Version with Apocrypha
In The King James Version
In Context
6And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.
8She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
Cross References
Matthew 25:35For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
John 12:7Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.
John 16:5But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?
John 17:11And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
2 Corinthians 9:13Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;
James 2:14What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith 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 →