John 12:8

for the poor you have with you always, but me you have not always."

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7used to purloin what was put in it. Then said Jesus. "Let her alone. Against the day of my burial has she kept this;

9When the great mass of the Jews learned that Jesus was there, they came not alone because of Jesus, but to see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.

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Cross References

Mark 14:7She has done a beautiful thing to me. For you always have the poor among you, and can show them kindness whenever you wish, but me you will not always have.

John 12:35"The Light is among you a little longer," answered Jesus. "Walk while you have the Light, lest darkness overtake you. He who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

John 16:5"But now I go my way to Him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, ‘Where are you 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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