Mark 14:7

7 For the poor you always have with you, and you can do good for them whenever you want, but you do not always have me.

Mark 14:7 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 14:7

For ye have the poor with you always
(See Gill on Matthew 26:11);

and whensoever ye will ye may do them good;
by feeding them when hungry, clothing them when naked, and supplying them with the necessaries of life:

but me ye have not always;
meaning, with respect to his bodily presence, which, in a short time, would be removed from them, and they would have no opportunity of showing him any such outward respect personally; (See Gill on Matthew 26:11).

Mark 14:7 In-Context

5 For this perfumed oil could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor!" And they began to scold her.

6 But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why do you cause trouble for her? She has done a good deed to me.

7 For the poor you always have with you, and you can do good for them whenever you want, but you do not always have me.

8 She has done what she could; {she has anointed my body beforehand} for burial.

9 And truly I say to you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.