A moment in scripture
Mark 14:7
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For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
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The surrounding passage
- 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.
- Mark 14:6
And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.
- Mark 14:8
She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
- Mark 14:9
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.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.