John 12:8

For haAniyim you have always with you, but you do not always have me. + 12:8 Dt 15:11

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.

In Context

7Therefore Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Let her alone. She kept this for the Yom HaKevurah (Day of Burial) of me. + 12:7 Isa 53:9

9When the great multitude of the Yehudim had da'as of where Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was, they came not only because of him, but also because of El'azar, that they may see the one whom he made to stand up alive from the mesim.

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Cross References

Song of Solomon 5:6I opened to dodi (my beloved); 1 but dodi had withdrawn and gone; 1 my nefesh departed when he spoke; 1 I sought him, but I could not find him; 1 I called him, but he gave me no answer. 1

Mark 14:7For always the aniyim you have with you, and when you wish you are able to do ma'asim tovim for them, but me you do not always have. + 14:7 Dt 15:11

John 12:35Therefore, he said to them, Yet a little time is the Ohr among you. Walk while you have the Ohr lest choshech overtake you; the one walking in the choshech does not have da'as of where he is going.

John 16:5But now I am going to the One who sent me. And none of you asks me, Where are you going?

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 →

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