Mark 14:7
For the poor ye have always with you; and when ye please, ye can do them kind offices: but I am not always with you.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
6But Jesus said: Let her alone; why trouble ye her? She hath done an excellent act towards me.
8What was in her power, she hath done; and by anticipation, hath perfumed my body, as if for burial.
Cross References
Matthew 25:35For I was hungry, and ye gave me food; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me home;
John 12:7But Jesus said: Let her alone; she hath kept it for the day of my burial.
John 16:5But now, I am going to Him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?
John 17:11Henceforth I am not in the world; but these are in the world, and I go to thee. Holy Father, keep them in that thy name, which thou hast given to me; that they may be one, as we are.
2 Corinthians 9:13For on account of the test of this ministration, we glorify God, that ye do subject yourselves to the profession of the gospel of the Messiah, and that in your liberality, ye communicate with them and with all men:
James 2:14What is the use, my brethren, if a man say, I have faith; and he hath no works? can his faith vivify 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 →