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John 12:8
for the poor ye have always with yourselves, and me ye have not always.'
John 12:8 · Young's Literal Translation
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 `Wherefore was not this ointment sold for three hundred denaries, and given to the poor?'
6 and he said this, not because he was caring for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and what things were put in he was carrying.
7 Jesus, therefore, said, `Suffer her; for the day of my embalming she hath kept it,
8 for the poor ye have always with yourselves, and me ye have not always.'
9 A great multitude, therefore, of the Jews knew that he is there, and they came, not because of Jesus only, but that Lazarus also they may see, whom he raised out of the dead;
10 and the chief priests took counsel, that also Lazarus they may kill,
11 because on account of him many of the Jews were going away, and were believing in Jesus.
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