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John 12:8
For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always.
John 12:8 · American Standard Version
John 12:8 in other translations
For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have Me.”
For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.”
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In context
5 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred shillings, and given to the poor?
6 Now this he said, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and having the bag took away what was put therein.
7 Jesus therefore said, Suffer her to keep it against the day of my burying.
8 For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always.
9 The common people therefore of the Jews learned that he was there: and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
10 But the chief priests took counsel that they might put Lazarus also to death;
11 because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.
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