Mark 14:7
For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me.
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In Context
6But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me.
8She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying.
Cross References
Matthew 25:35for I was hungry and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty and you gave me drink. I was a stranger and you took me in.
John 12:7But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial.
John 16:5But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’
John 17:11I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are.
2 Corinthians 9:13seeing that through the proof given by this service, they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the Good News of Christ and for the generosity of your contribution to them and to all,
James 2:14What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can 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 →