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Read Full Chapter (John 12) John 12:7-8 KJV
"Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this. For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always."
John 12:7-8 in Context (Verses 4–11 KJV)
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Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, which should betray him,
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Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
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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.
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Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.
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For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
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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.
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¶ But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;
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Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.