You will always have poor people with you, but you will not always have me.
Mark 14:7 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) 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. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish you can do good to them; but you will not always have Me. [Deut. 15:11.] American Standard Version (1901) For ye have the poor always with you, and whensoever ye will ye can do them good: but me ye have not always. Common English Bible You always have the poor with you; and whenever you want, you can do something good for them. But you won’t always have me. Catholic Public Domain Version For the poor, you have with you always. And whenever you wish, you are able to do good to them. But you do not have me always. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For the poor you have always with you: and whensoever you will, you may do them good: but me you have not always. |
You will always have poor people with you, but you will not always have me.
But Jesus said, “Let her alone. Why are you bothering this woman? For she has done a kind deed to me.
“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.’
I came from the Father into this world and now I am leaving the world and returning to the Father.”
“But now I am going to Him who sent me; yet none of you is asking me, ‘Where are you going?’
And [now] I am coming to you, for I will not be in the world any longer, yet these men are [still] in the world. Holy Father, protect them by [the power of] your name which you have given me. May these men be one, as we are [one].
who must be received into heaven until [God’s appointed] times when everything will be restored [to its intended purpose]. God had spoken about this through the proclamations of His holy prophets of long ago.
For I have much joy and encouragement from [observing] your love, because you have cheered the hearts of the saints [i.e., God’s holy people], brother.