Mark 14:7
For you have the poor always with you, and when you wish, you are able to do them good: but you have not me always.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
In Context
6And Jesus said, Let her alone; why do you give her trouble? she hath wrought a beautiful work in me.
8She did what she could: she came aforehand to anoint my body for the burial.
Cross References
Matthew 25:35For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat: I was thirsty, and you gave me drink: I was a stranger, and you took me in;
John 12:7Then Jesus said, Let her alone; she hath reserved this unto the day of my burial;
John 16:5But now I go to Him that sent me; and no one of you asks me, Whither goest thou?
John 17:11And I am no longer in the world, and they are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them through my name whom thou hast given unto me, in order that they may be one, as we are.
2 Corinthians 9:13through the approval of this ministry, glorifying God in the submission of your testimony to the gospel of Christ, and the purity of your fellowship unto them and unto all;
James 2:14But what is it profitable, my brethren, if one may say he has faith, but has not works? whether is faith able to 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 →