John 12:8

For the poor are always with you, but I am not with you always.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7But Jesus said: Let her alone; she hath kept it for the day of my burial.

9And great multitudes of the Jews heard that he was there: and they came, not only on account of Jesus, but also that they might see Lazarus, whom he raised from the dead.

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Cross References

Mark 14:7For the poor ye have always with you; and when ye please, ye can do them kind offices: but I am not always with you.

John 12:35Jesus said to them: A short time longer, the light is with you. Walk, while ye have the light, lest the darkness overtake you. He that walketh in the dark, knoweth not whither he goeth.

John 16:5But now, I am going to Him that sent me; and none of you asketh 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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