Mark 14:7
For you always have the poor with you, and you can do good to them whenever you want, but you will not always have me.
Text-Critical English NT
In The King James Version
In Context
8She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand to prepare me for burial.
Cross References
Matthew 25:35For I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in;
John 12:7So Jesus said, “Leave her alone; she has kept this ointment for the day of my burial.
John 16:5“But now I am going to him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, ‘Where are yoʋ going?’
John 17:11I will no longer remain in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to yoʋ. Holy Father, keep them in yoʋr name, which yoʋ have given me, so that they may be one, just as we are one.
2 Corinthians 9:13By their approval of this ministry, the saints in Jerusalem will glorify God because of your submission to the gospel of Christ that you confess, and also because of your generous contribution to them and to all.
James 2:14What is the benefit, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can that 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 →