Mark 14:7
for 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;
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In Context
6And Jesus said, “Leave her alone; why are you giving her trouble? She worked a good work on Me;
8she did what she could, she anticipated to anoint My body for the embalming.
Cross References
Matthew 25:35for I hungered, and you gave Me to eat; I thirsted, and you gave Me to drink; I was a stranger, and you received Me;
John 12:7Jesus, therefore, said, “Permit her; she has kept it for the day of My embalming,
John 16:5and now I go away to Him who sent Me, and none of you asks Me, To where do you go?
John 17:11and I am no longer in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your Name, whom You have given to Me, that they may be one as We [are one];
2 Corinthians 9:13through the proof of this ministry glorifying God for the subjection of your confession to the good news of the Christ, and [for] the liberality of the fellowship to them and to all,
James 2:14What [is] the profit, my brothers, if anyone may speak of having faith, but he may not have works? Is that faith able to 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 →