John 12:8

For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me.”

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7So Jesus said, “Leave her alone; she has kept this ointment for the day of my burial.

9Meanwhile a large crowd of the Jews found out that Jesus was there, so they came not only because of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

Read all of John 12

Cross References

Mark 14:7For you always have the poor with you, and you can do good to them whenever you want, but you will not always have me.

John 12:35Jesus said to them, “The light is with you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness will not overtake you. He who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

John 16:5“But now I am going to him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, ‘Where are yoʋ 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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study John 12:8