John 12:8

Tree of Life Version

You will always have the poor among you, but you will not always have Me.”

Cross References

Song of Solomon 5:6

I opened to my lover— but my lover had departed, he was gone! My soul went out to him when he spoke. I searched for him, but did not find him. I called him, but he did not answer me.

Matthew 26:11

You always have the poor with you, but you won’t always have Me.

Mark 14:7

For you always have the poor with you, and you can do good for them whenever you want; but you won’t always have Me.

John 12:35

Therefore Yeshua said to them, “The light is with you for a little longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness will not overtake you. The one who walks in darkness doesn’t know where he is going.

John 13:33

Little children, I am with you only a little longer. You will search for Me; and just as I told the Judean leaders, so I say to you now, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’

John 8:21

Then again Yeshua spoke to them, “I am going away. You will look for Me and die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.”

Deuteronomy 15:11

“For there will never cease to be poor people in the land. Therefore I am commanding you, saying, ‘You must surely open your hand to your brother—to your needy and poor in your land.’