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

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Mark 14 contains 72 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.