John 12:8

for you always have the poor with yourselves, and you do not always have Me.”

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7Jesus, therefore, said, “Permit her; she has kept it for the day of My embalming,

9Therefore, a great multitude of the Jews knew that He is there, and they came, not only because of Jesus, but that they may also see Lazarus, whom He raised out of the dead;

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Cross References

Song of Solomon 5:6I opened to my beloved, || But my beloved withdrew—he passed on, || My soul went forth when he spoke, I sought him, and did not find him. I called him, and he did not answer me.

Mark 14:7for you always have the poor with you, and whenever you may will you are able to do them good, but you do not always have Me;

John 12:35Therefore Jesus said to them, “Yet a short time is the light with you; walk while you have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; and he who is walking in the darkness has not known where he goes;

John 16:5and now I go away to Him who sent Me, and none of you asks Me, To where do you go?

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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