Mark 14:7

For 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

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

6But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Leave her alone. Why are you bringing about difficulty for the isha? Has she not performed one of the Gemilut Chasadim on me?

8With what she had she did all she could. She prepared ahead of time to anoint my basar for the kevurah (burial). + 14:8 Ps 16:9-10; Job 19:25-27; Isa 53:9

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Cross References

Matthew 25:35For I hungered and you gave me something to eat. I thirsted and you gave drink to me. I was a sojourner, and you extended hachnosas orchim (hospitality) to me.

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

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

John 17:11And I am no longer in the Olam Hazeh, but they are in the Olam Hazeh, and I am coming to You, Avi HaKadosh. Be shomer over them in Shmecha, which You have given me, that they may be Echad as we are Echad. + 17:11 Ps 133:1; Dt 6:4; Gn 2:24

2 Corinthians 9:13Through the proof of this Messianic Jewish sherut you bring kavod to Hashem on the basis of your submission to your Ani Ma'amin Hoda'a confession of the Besuras HaGeulah of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach and on the basis of the generosity of your terumah (contribution) to them and to all kol Bnei Adam;

James 2:14What is the revach (gain, profit), my Achim b'Moshiach, if anyone claims to have emunah but does not have ma'asim (deeds)? Surely not such “emunah” is able to bring him to Yeshu'at Eloheinu?

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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