Mark 14:7
For, always, have ye, the destitute, with you, and whensoever ye please, ye can, unto them, [at any time] do well! But, me, not, always, have ye.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
6But, Jesus, said—Let her alone! Why are ye reproaching, her? A seemly work, hath she wrought, in me;
8What she had, she used,—She took it beforehand to anoint my body for the burial;
Cross References
Matthew 25:35For I hungered, and ye gave me to eat, I thirsted, and ye gave me drink, a stranger, was I, and ye took me home,
John 12:7Jesus, therefore, said—Let her alone, that, for the day of my burial, she may observe it;
John 16:5But, now, I go my way unto him that sent me, and, not one from among you, questioneth me—Whither goest thou?
John 17:11And, no longer, am I in the world, and, they, are, in the world,—and, I, unto thee, am coming. Holy Father! Keep them in thy name which thou hast given me, that they may be one, as, we.
2 Corinthians 9:13[Of many] who, through the proof of this ministry, are glorifying God for your acknowledged submission unto the glad-message of the Christ, and for the liberality of the fellowship, unto them, and unto all,—
James 2:14What profit, my brethren,—if one should be saying he hath, faith, but hath not, works; can his 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 →