Mark 14:7
For the poor ye have always with you, and whenever ye will, ye can do good to them; but me ye have not always.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
6But Jesus said, Let her alone; why do ye trouble her? A good deed hath she done for me.
8She hath done what she could; she hath anointed my body beforehand for its burial.
Cross References
Matthew 25:35For I was hungry, and ye gave me food; 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, that she may keep it until the day of my burial.
John 16:5But now I go to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?
John 17:11And I am no longer in the world; and they are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father! keep them in thy name which thou hast given me, that they may be one, even as we are.
2 Corinthians 9:13while by the proof afforded by this ministration they glorify God for your obedience to your profession in regard to the gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution in regard to them and in regard to all;
James 2:14What doth it profit, my brethren, if any one say that he hath faith, and have not works? Can his 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 →