You will always have poor people with you. {\cf2\super [397]} But you will not always have me.
Mark 14:7 - Easy To Read Version You will always have poor people with you. You can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. {\cf2\super [397]} But you will not always have me.
Jesus said, “Don’t bother the woman. Why are you troubling her? She did a very good thing for me.
Jesus said, “My children, I will be with you only a short time more. You will look for me. And what I told the Jewish leaders, I tell you now: Where I am going you cannot come.
I came from the Father into the world. Now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”
Now I am going back to the One who sent me. But none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’
Now I am coming to you. I will not stay in the world now. But these men are still in the world. Holy Father, keep them safe. Keep them safe by the power of your name (the name you gave me), so that they will be one, the same as you and I are one.
But Jesus must stay in heaven until the time when all things will be made right again. God told about this time when he spoke long ago through his holy prophets.
There will always be poor people in the land. That is why I command you to be ready to help your brother. Give to the poor people in your land that need help.