For the poor always you have with you; but me you have not always. Treasury of Scripture the poor. Deuteronomy 15:11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command you, saying, You shall open your hand wide to your brother... Matthew 26:11 For you have the poor always with you; but me you have not always. Mark 14:7 For you have the poor with you always, and whenever you will you may do them good: but me you have not always. but. John 12:35 Then Jesus said to them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness come on you... John 8:21 Then said Jesus again to them, I go my way, and you shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: where I go, you cannot come. John 13:33 Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You shall seek me: and as I said to the Jews, Where I go, you cannot come... John 16:5-7 But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asks me, Where go you... Songs 5:6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spoke: I sought him... Acts 1:9-11 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight...
Context Mary Anoints Jesus
1Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. 2There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him. 3Then 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 odor of the ointment. 4Then said one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him, 5Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? 6This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bore what was put therein. 7Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying has she kept this. 8For the poor always you have with you; but me you have not always. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For the poor you have always with you; but me you have not always.
Darby Bible Translation
for ye have the poor always with you, but me ye have not always.
King James Bible
For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
Young's Literal Translation
for the poor ye have always with yourselves, and me ye have not always.'
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