Mark 14:7
For you have the poor with you always, and whenever you wish you may do them good: but you will not always have me.
Revised King James New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
6And Jesus said, Let her alone; why are you troubling her? she has done a beautiful thing to me.
8She has done what she could: she has come beforehand to anoint my body for burial.
Cross References
Matthew 25:35For I was hungry, and you gave me food: I was thirsty, and you gave me drink: I was a stranger, and you took me in:
John 12:7Then Jesus said, Let her alone: she has kept it for the day of my burial.
John 16:5But now I go to him who sent me; and none of you asks me, Where are you going?
John 17:11And now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to you. Holy Father, keep those whom you have given me in your own name, that they may be one, as we are.
2 Corinthians 9:13Because of the proof given by this service, they will glorify God because of your obedience to the gospel of Christ, which you profess, and for your liberal contribution to them, and to all;
James 2:14What does it profit, my brethren, if a man say he has faith, but has not works? can that 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 →