Mark 14:7 · WEB
“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.”
— Mark 14:7
Era
Life of Jesus (~30 AD)
Emotion
grieving
Type
narrative
Emotional genome
Comfort power
Quotability
Memorability
Crisis relevance
Standalone
Prophecytimepresence
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