For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
John 12:8 in context
John 12:5–11
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Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.
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But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial.
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For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.”
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A large crowd 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.
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But the chief priests conspired to put Lazarus to death also,
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because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.
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