Mark 14:7

Poor people will always be here with you. Day after day you can give them money. I will not be with you a long time. I will stay a little while, after that I will die.

Nyangumarta (portions)

In The King James Version

For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.

In Context

6In response Jesus said to them, “Leave her alone. Why do you rebuke her? She did a good thing for me.

8Truly she did a good thing for me. Today she poured this good sweet perfume on my body in order to do good for my burial (?) later.

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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 →

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