"For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always." — Mark 14:7

Mark 14:7 · KJV

“For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.”

— Mark 14:7

And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.

She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.

Mark 14 — Context

For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.

And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.

For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.

She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.

Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, {this} also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 15:11

For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

Matthew 26:11

For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.

1 John 3:16-19

Hereby perceive we the love {of God}, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down {our} lives for the brethren.

James 2:14-16

What {doth it} profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?

John 13:33

Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you.

Matthew 25:35-45

For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:

Philemon 1:7

For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.

Acts 3:21

Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.