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Mark 14:7
For the poor you have always with you: and whensoever you will, you may do them good: but me you have not always.
Mark 14:7 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
Mark 14:7 in other translations
For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them whenever you want. But you will not always have Me.
For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me.
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In context
4 Now there were some that had indignation within themselves and said: Why was this waste of the ointment made?
5 For this ointment might have been sold for more than three hundred pence and given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
6 But Jesus said: Let her alone. Why do You molest her? She hath wrought a good work upon me.
7 For the poor you have always with you: and whensoever you will, you may do them good: but me you have not always.
8 She hath done what she could: she is come beforehand to anoint my body for the burial.
9 Amen, I say to you, wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, that also which she hath done shall be told for a memorial of her.
10 And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the chief priests, to betray him to them.
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