Mark 14:7
for 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;
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
6And Jesus said, 'Let her alone; why are ye giving her trouble? a good work she wrought on me;
8what she could she did, she anticipated to anoint my body for the embalming.
Cross References
Matthew 25:35for I did hunger, and ye gave me to eat; I did thirst, and ye gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and ye received me;
John 12:7Jesus, therefore, said, 'Suffer her; for the day of my embalming she hath kept it,
John 16:5and now I go away to Him who sent me, and none of you doth ask me, Whither dost thou go?
John 17:11and no more am I in the world, and these are in the world, and I come unto Thee. Holy Father, keep them in Thy name, whom Thou hast given to me, that they may be one as we;
2 Corinthians 9:13through the proof of this ministration glorifying God for the subjection of your confession to the good news of the Christ, and [for] the liberality of the fellowship to them and to all,
James 2:14What [is] the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to 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 →