John 12:8

In all time the poor you have with you; but me you have not at all time.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7But Jeshu said, Let her alone. For the day of my burial had she kept it.

9And a great company of Jihudoyee who were there heard Jeshu. And they had come not on Jeshu's account only, but also to see Loozar, he whom he had raised from among the dead.

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Cross References

Mark 14:7For in all time you have the poor with you, and, when you will, you can do them good; but I am not at all time with you.

John 12:35Jeshu saith to them, A little further time is the light with you. Walk while you have the light, that the darkness overtake you not. And whoever walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.

John 16:5But now I go unto Him who sent me; and no man of you asketh 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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