John 12:8

For the poor always ye have with you,.... And so would not want opportunities of showing a regard to them, which Christ always recommended; nor does he here in the least discourage an industrious and…

See this passage explained in the notes at Mat 26:3-16. Joh 12:2 A supper - At the house of Simon the leper, Mat 26:6. Lazarus was ... - The names of Martha and Lazarus are mentioned because it was…

In these verses we have,

I. The kind visit our Lord Jesus paid to his friends at Bethany, Joh 12:1. He came up out of the country, six days before the passover, and took up at Bethany, a town which,…

For the poor, &c. Comp. Deu 15:11. Every word of this verse occurs in the first two Gospels, though not quite in the same order. Here the emphasis is on -the poor," there on -always." The striking…