John 12:8

For the poor you always have with you, but you have not me always."

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.

In Context

7But Jesus interposed. "Do not blame her," He said, "allow her to have kept it for the time of my preparation for burial.

9Now it became widely known among the Jews that Jesus was there; but they came not only on His account, but also in order to see Lazarus whom He had brought back to life.

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Cross References

Mark 14:7For you always have the poor among you, and whenever you choose you can do acts of kindness to them; but me you have not always.

John 12:35"Yet a little while," He replied, "the light is among you. Be faithful to the light that you have, for fear darkness should overtake you; for a man who walks in the dark does not know where he is going.

John 16:5But now I an returning to Him who sent me; and not one of you asks me where I am going.

Matthew Henry on John 12:2-12

Mary Anoints Christ's Feet; Hypocrisy of Judas; Indignation of the Chief Priests. 1 Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. 2 There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him. 3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment. 4 Then… Read the whole commentary →

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