A moment in scripture
John 12:8
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For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
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The surrounding passage
- John 12:6
This 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.
- John 12:7
Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.
- John 12:9
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.
- John 12:10
But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.