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John 12:8
For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always.
John 12:8 · Webster Bible
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 This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bore what was put in it.
7 Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burial hath she kept this.
8 For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always.
9 Many people of the Jews therefore knew 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 consulted 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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