John 12:8

The poore all wayes shall ye have with you but me shall ye not all wayes have.

Tyndale New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7Then sayde Iesus: Let her alone agaynst the daye of my buryinge she kept it.

9Moche people of the Iewes had knowledge that he was there. And they came not for Iesus sake only but that they myght se Lazarus also whom he raysed from deeth.

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Cross References

Mark 14:7For ye shall have poore with you all wayes: and when soever ye will ye maye do them good: but me ye shall not have alwayes.

John 12:35Then Iesus sayde vnto them: yet a lytell whyle is the light with you. Walke whill ye have light lest the darcknes come on you. He that walketh in the darke wotteth not whither he goeth.

John 16:5But now I goo my waye to him that sent me and none of you axeth me: whither goest thou?

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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