John 12:8 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

For you will always have poor people among you, but you will not always have me.”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me.

American Standard Version (1901)

For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always.

Common English Bible

You will always have the poor among you, but you won’t always have me.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

For the poor, you have with you always. But me, you do always not have."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For the poor you have always with you; but me you have not always.

John 12:8 Cross References

Matthew 26:11

You will always have poor people with you, but you will not always have me.

Mark 14:7

You will always have poor people with you, and you can do something good for them whenever you want to, but you will not always have me with you.

John 12:35

So, Jesus said to them, “The Light will be among you for only a little while [longer]. Walk around while you [still] have the Light [with you], before darkness surrounds you. For the person who walks around in darkness does not know where he is going.

John 13:33

“I will be with you, [my dear] children, for only a little while [longer]. You people will look for me, but I am now telling you what I told the Jewish authorities, ‘You will not be able to go where I will be.’

John 8:21

Jesus again said to them, “I am going away and you will look for me, but you will die [condemned] in your sins. You cannot go where I am going.”