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.
Mark 14:7 in other translations
| BSB | The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them whenever you want. But you will not always have Me. |
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| WEB | 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. |
| ASV | For ye have the poor always with you, and whensoever ye will ye can do them good: but me ye have not always. |
| YLT | 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; |
| DARBY | for ye have the poor always with you, and whenever ye would ye can do them good; but me ye have not always. |
| BBE | The poor you have ever with you, and whenever you have the desire you may do them good: but me you have not for ever. |
| Webster | For ye have the poor with you always, and whenever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always. |
What does Mark 14:7 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Barnes' Notes
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Mark 14:1-11
Did Christ pour out his soul unto death for us, and shall we think any thing too precious for him? Do we give him the precious ointment of our best affections? Let us love him with all the heart, though it is common for zeal and affection to be misunderstood and blamed; and remember that charity to the poor will not excuse any from particular acts of piety to the Lord Jesus. Christ commended this woman's pious…
Mark 14:7 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Mark 14:7
- 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.
- 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? If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
- 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. But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
- John 16:5
But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?
- 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: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? …
- 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.
- John 17:11
And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
- Philemon 1:7
For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.
- John 12:7-8
Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this. For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
- John 16:28
I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
De 15:11; Mt 25:35-45; 26:11; Joh 12:7,8; 2Co 9:13,14; Phm 1:7
Jas 2:14-16; 1Jo 3:16-19
but.
Joh 13:33; 16:5,28; 17:11; Ac 3:21
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Context
- Mark 14:6
And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.
- 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.
- Mark 14:8
She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
Mark 14:7 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Que siempre tendréis los pobres con vosotros, y cuando quisiereis les podréis hacer bien; mas á mí no siempre me tendréis. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | car vous avez toujours les pauvres avec vous, et quand vous voudrez, vous pourrez leur faire du bien; mais moi, vous ne m’avez pas toujours. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | denn die Armen habt ihr allezeit bei euch, und wenn ihr wollt, könnt ihr ihnen wohltun; mich aber habt ihr nicht allezeit. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | semper enim pauperes habetis vobiscum: et cum volueritis, potestis illis benefacere: me autem non semper habetis. |