John 12:8

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

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7Then said Jesus, Let her alone: for the day of my burial hath she reserved this.

9Then the whole multitude of the Jews knew that he was there: and they came not for the sake of Jesus only, but also that they might see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

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Cross References

Mark 14:7For the poor ye have always with you, and when ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.

John 12:35Then said Jesus unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest the darkness overtake you: he that walketh in darkness, knoweth not even whither he is going.

John 16:5But now I am going away to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither art thou going?

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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