King James Version (KJV)
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.›”
Verse in context — Mark 14
5
For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
6
And Jesus said, ‹Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.›
7
‹For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.›
8
‹She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.›
9
‹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.›
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