Mark 14:7
For ye always have the poor with you, and whenever ye may desire ye can do them well, but ye do not always have me.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
6But Jesus said, Leave her be. Why do ye cause troubles for her? She performed a good work on me.
8She applied what she had to anoint my body. She did it beforehand for the burial.
Cross References
Matthew 25:35For I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat. I was thirsty, and ye gave me to drink. I was a stranger, and ye took me in,
John 12:7Jesus therefore said, Let her alone. She has keep it for the day of my burial.
John 16:5But now I go to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, Where do thou go?
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 that thou have given to me, so that they may be one, just as we.
2 Corinthians 9:13through the evidence of this service, glorifying God at the subjection of your confession toward the good-news of the Christ, and at the generosity of the participation, for them and for all,
James 2:14What is the benefit, my brothers, if some man should say to have faith, but has no works? Can the 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 →