Mark 14:7
For ye have the poor with you always, and whenever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
6And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.
8She hath done what she could: she is come beforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
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 in:
John 12:7Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burial hath she kept this.
John 16:5But now I go to him that sent me, and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?
John 17:11And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thy own name those whom thou hast given to me, that they may be one, as we are .
2 Corinthians 9:13While by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection to the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution to them, and to all men ;
James 2:14What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man sayeth he hath faith, and hath not works? can 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 →