Mark 14:7
For ye have the poor always with you, and whensoever ye will ye can do them good: but me ye have not always.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
6But Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.
8She hath done what she could: she hath anointed my body aforehand for the burying.
Cross References
Matthew 25:35for I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in;
John 12:7Jesus therefore said, Suffer her to keep it against the day of my burying.
John 16:5But now I go unto him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?
John 17:11And I am no more in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name which thou hast given me, that they may be one, even as we are.
2 Corinthians 9:13seeing that through the proving of you by this ministration they glorify God for the obedience of your confession unto the gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution unto them and unto all;
James 2:14What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have 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 →