John 12:8

For the poore alwayes yee haue with you, but me ye shall not haue alwayes.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7Then said Iesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying she kept it.

9Then much people of the Iewes knewe that hee was there: and they came, not for Iesus sake onely, but that they might see Lazarus also, whome he had raysed from the dead.

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Cross References

Song of Solomon 5:6I opened to my welbeloued: but my welbeloued was gone, and past: mine heart was gone when hee did speake: I sought him, but I coulde not finde him: I called him, but hee answered mee not.

Mark 14:7For yee haue the poore with you alwaies, and when yee will yee may doe them good, but me yee shall not haue alwaies.

John 12:35Then Iesus sayd vnto them, Yet a litle while is the light with you: walke while ye haue that light, lest the darkenes come vpon you: for hee that walketh in the darke, knoweth not whither he goeth.

John 16:5But now I go my way to him that sent me, and none 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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