John 12:8 KJV
For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
John 12:8, King James Version
In context
7 Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.
8 For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
9 Much 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.
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.
- Mark 14:7 For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
- Matthew 26:11 For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
- John 12:35 Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.