John 12:8
For the poor ye have always with you, but me ye have not always.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
In Context
7Then said Jesus, Let her alone, that she may keep it until the day of my burial.
Cross References
Song of Solomon 5:6I opened to my beloved; But my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone. I was not in my senses while he spake with me! I sought him, but could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
Mark 14:7For the poor ye have always with you, and whenever ye will, ye can do good to them; but me ye have not always.
John 12:35Jesus therefore said to them, Yet a little while is the light among you. Walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; and he that walketh in the darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.
John 16:5But now I go to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?
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 →