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John 12:8

American Standard Version

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

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John 12:8 in other translations

For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.”

John 12:8 · World English Bible

John 12:8 in context

  1. 6Now this he said, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and having the bag took away what was put therein.
  2. 7Jesus therefore said, Suffer her to keep it against the day of my burying.
  3. 8For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always.
  4. 9The common people therefore of the Jews learned 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.
  5. 10But the chief priests took counsel that they might put Lazarus also to death;