Parallel Verses
Webster
For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
because you will always have the destitute with you, but you won't always have me."
A Conservative Version
For ye always have the poor with you, but ye do not always have me.
American Standard Version
For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always.
Amplified
An Understandable Version
For you will always have poor people among you, but you will not always have me."
Anderson New Testament
For the poor you have always with you; but me you have not always.
Bible in Basic English
The poor you have ever with you, but me you have not for ever.
Common New Testament
The poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me."
Daniel Mace New Testament
the poor you will always have with you; but me you will not always have.
Darby Translation
for ye have the poor always with you, but me ye have not always.
Godbey New Testament
for you have the poor always with you; but you have not me always.
Goodspeed New Testament
for you always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me."
John Wesley New Testament
Ye have the poor always with you: but me ye have not always.
Julia Smith Translation
For the poor have ye always with you;and me ye have not always.
King James 2000
For the poor always you have with you; but me you have not always.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For you have the poor with you always, but you do not always have me."
Modern King James verseion
For you have the poor with you always; but you do not always have Me.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The poor always shall ye have with you, but me shall ye not always have."
Moffatt New Testament
You have always the poor beside you, but you have not always me."
Montgomery New Testament
for the poor you have with you always, but me you have not always."
NET Bible
For you will always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me!"
New Heart English Bible
For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me."
Noyes New Testament
For the poor ye have always with you, but me ye have not always.
Sawyer New Testament
the poor you always have with you, but me you have not always.
The Emphasized Bible
For, the destitute, always, have ye with you, whereas, me, not always, have ye.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always.
Twentieth Century New Testament
The poor you always have with you, but you will not always have me."
Weymouth New Testament
For the poor you always have with you, but you have not me always."
Williams New Testament
for you always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me."
World English Bible
For you always have the poor with you, but you don't always have me."
Worrell New Testament
for the poor ye always have with you, but Me ye have not always."
Worsley New Testament
For the poor ye have always with you, but me ye have not always.
Youngs Literal Translation
for the poor ye have always with yourselves, and me ye have not always.'
Themes
Bethany » Jesus attends a feast in
Defender of the weak » Mary of bethany
Jesus Christ » Revelations by » Concerning » His ascension
Jesus Christ » History of » Anointed with precious ointment (in bethany)
Jesus Christ » History of » Goes to bethany six days before the passover
Topics
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References
Word Count of 37 Translations in John 12:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jesus Is Anointed At Bethany
7 Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burial hath she kept this. 8 For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always. 9 Many people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there: and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
Names
Cross References
Deuteronomy 15:11
For the poor shall never cease from the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thy hand wide to thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
Matthew 26:11
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
Mark 14:7
For ye have the poor with you always, and whenever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
Song of Songs 5:6
I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spoke: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
John 8:21
Then said Jesus again to them, I am going away, and ye will seek me, and will die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come.
John 12:35
Then Jesus said to them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.
John 13:33
Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye will seek me: and, as I said to the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you.
John 16:5-7
But now I go to him that sent me, and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?
Acts 1:9-11
And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.