John 12:8

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

The poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me.”

Cross References

Song of Solomon 5:6

I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had turned and gone. My soul failed me when he spoke. I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he gave no answer.

Matthew 26:11

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

Mark 14:7

For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you will, you can do good to them; but you will not always have me.

John 12:35

Jesus said to them, “The light is with you for a little longer. Walk while you have the light, lest the darkness overtake you; he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes.

John 13:33

Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me; and as I said to the Jews so now I say to you, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’

John 8:21

Again he said to them, “I go away, and you will seek me and die in your sin; where I am going, you cannot come.”

Deuteronomy 15:11

For the poor will never cease out of the land; therefore I command you, You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in the land.