John 12:8

You will always have the poor with you. But you will not always have me.”

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

7Jesus said, “Allow her to keep what she has for the day of my burial.

9Now a large crowd of the Jews learned that Jesus was there, and they came, not only for Jesus, but also to see Lazarus, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.

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Cross References

Song of Solomon 5:6I opened the door for my beloved, 1 but my beloved had turned and gone. 1 My heart sank when he spoke. + 5:6 Some versions read sank because he had turned away . 1 I looked for him, but I did not find him; 1 I called him, but he did not answer me. 1

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

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

John 16:5But now I go to him who sent me, yet 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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