Mark 14:7

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

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

6Then said Jesus, Let her alone; why give ye her uneasiness? she hath performed a laudable act towards me.

8What was in her power she hath done; she has seized the opportunity to anoint my body beforehand for burial.

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Cross References

Matthew 25:35for I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me to drink: I was a stranger, and ye received me hospitably:

John 12:7Then said Jesus, Let her alone: for the day of my burial hath she reserved this.

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

John 17:11And now no longer am I in this world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to thee. Holy Father! preserve them for thy name’s sake whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.

2 Corinthians 9:13(while by the evidence of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection to the gospel of Christ, and for your liberality towards them, and towards all men;)

James 2:14What is the advantage, my brethren, if a man profess to have faith, but hath not works; can faith 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 →

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