John 12:8

for you have the poor always with you; but you have not me always.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7Then Jesus said, Let her alone; she hath reserved this unto the day of my burial;

9then a great multitude of the Jews came not only on account of Jesus, but that they might see Lazarus, whom He raised from the dead; because he was there.

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Cross References

Mark 14:7For you have the poor always with you, and when you wish, you are able to do them good: but you have not me always.

John 12:35Then Jesus said to them, Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk about as you have the light, in order that the darkness may not overtake you: and he that walketh about in darkness does not know where he is going.

John 16:5But now I go to Him that sent me; and no one of you asks 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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