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Mark 14:7
For ye have the poor with you always, and whenever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
Mark 14:7 · Webster Bible
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 And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?
5 For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
6 And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.
7 For ye have the poor with you always, and whenever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
8 She hath done what she could: she is come beforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
9 Verily I say to you, Wherever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, [this] also that she hath done shall be spoken of, 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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