John 12:8

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

For you always have the poor with you,   but you do not always have me.’

Cross References

Deuteronomy 15:11

For there will never cease to be poor people in the land;  that is why I am commanding you, “Open your hand willingly to your poor and needy brother in your land.”

Mark 14:7

You always have the poor   with you, and you can do what is good for them whenever you want, but you do not always have me.

John 12:35

Jesus answered, ‘The light will be with you only a little longer.   Walk while you have the light   so that darkness doesn’t overtake you.   The one who walks in darkness doesn’t know where he’s going.

Matthew 26:11

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

John 13:33

Little children, I am with you a little while longer.   You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so now I tell you, “Where I am going, you cannot come.”

John 8:21

Then he said to them again, ‘I’m going away;   you will look for me, and you will die in your sin.   Where I’m going, you cannot come.’

Song of Solomon 5:6

I opened to my love, but my love had turned and gone away. My heart sank  because he had left. I sought him, but did not find him. I called him, but he did not answer.