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John 12:8
For the poor you have always with you: but me you have not always.
John 12:8 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
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 pence and given to the poor?
6 Now he said this not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief and, having the purse, carried the things that were put therein.
7 Jesus therefore said: Let her alone, that she may keep it against the day of my burial.
8 For the poor you have always with you: but me you have not always.
9 A great multitude therefore of the Jews knew that he was there; and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.
10 But the chief priests thought to kill Lazarus also:
11 Because many of the Jews, by reason of him, went away and believed in Jesus.
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