8For the poor always you have with you; but me you have not always.


In Context

5 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?

6 This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bore what was put therein.

7 Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying has she kept this.

8 For the poor always you have with you; but me you have not always.

9 Much 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.

10 But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;

John 12:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:8For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

12:8You will always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

12:8For the poor you have always with you; but me you have not always.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

12:8For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:8for ye have the poor always with you, but me ye have not always.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

12:8For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:8For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:8For you always have the poor with you, but you don't always have me.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

12:8for the poor ye have always with yourselves, and me ye have not always.'