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Mark 14:7
for the poor always ye have with you, and whenever ye may will ye are able to do them good, but me ye have not always;
Mark 14:7 · Young's Literal Translation
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 certain much displeased within themselves, and saying, `For what hath this waste of the ointment been made?
5 for this could have been sold for more than three hundred denaries, and given to the poor;' and they were murmuring at her.
6 And Jesus said, `Let her alone; why are ye giving her trouble? a good work she wrought on me;
7 for the poor always ye have with you, and whenever ye may will ye are able to do them good, but me ye have not always;
8 what she could she did, she anticipated to anoint my body for the embalming.
9 Verily I say to you, wherever this good news may be proclaimed in the whole world, what also this woman did shall be spoken of--for a memorial of her.'
10 And Judas the Iscariot, one of the twelve, went away unto the chief priests that he might deliver him up to them,
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