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John 12:8 KJV
John · chapter 12 · verse 8
For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.John 12:8 · King James Version
John 12:8 in context
6This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
7Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.
8For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
9Much 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.
10But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;
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Key words (Strong's)
- alwayspantoteat all times, always, everG3842 →
- poorptōchosreduced to beggary, begging, asking alms, destitute of wealth, influence, position…G4434 →
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In these verses we have, I. The kind visit our Lord Jesus paid to his friends at Bethany, Joh 12:1. He came up out of the country, six days before the passover, and took up at Bethany, a town which, according to the computation of our metropolis, lay so near Jerusalem as to be within the bills of mortality.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-11