John 12:8

for the poor ye have always with yourselves, and me ye have not always.'

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7Jesus, therefore, said, 'Suffer her; for the day of my embalming she hath kept it,

9A great multitude, therefore, of the Jews knew that he is there, and they came, not because of Jesus only, but that Lazarus also they may see, whom he raised out of the dead;

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Cross References

Song of Solomon 5:6I opened to my beloved, But my beloved withdrew — he passed on, My soul went forth when he spake, I sought him, and found him not. I called him, and he answered me not.

Mark 14:7for the poor always ye have with you, and whenever ye may will ye are able to do them good, but me ye have not always;

John 12:35Jesus, therefore, said to them, 'Yet a little time is the light with you; walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; and he who is walking in the darkness hath not known where he goeth;

John 16:5and now I go away to Him who sent me, and none of you doth ask me, Whither dost thou go?

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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