Mark 14:7
You always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish you can do good to them; but you will not always have me.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
In Context
8She has done what she could; she has perfumed my body beforehand for my burial.
Cross References
Matthew 25:35For, when I was hungry, you gave me food; when I was thirsty, you gave me drink; when I was a stranger, you took me to your homes;
John 12:7“Leave her alone,” said Jesus, “so that she may keep it until the day when my body is being prepared for burial.
John 16:5I did not tell you all this at first, because I was with you. But now I am to return to him who sent me; and yet not one of you asks me – ‘Where are you going?’
John 17:11Now I am to be in this world no longer, but they are still to be in the world, and I am to come to you. Holy Father, keep them by that revelation of your name which you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are.
2 Corinthians 9:13Through the evidence afforded by the service rendered, you cause people to praise God for your fidelity to your profession of faith in the good news of the Christ, as well as for the liberality of your contributions for them and for all others.
James 2:14My friends, what good is it if someone claims that they have faith, but they do not prove it by actions? Can such faith save them?
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 →