For the poor you have with you always, but Me you do not have always."
John 12:8
Surrounding context
12:7 But Jesus said, "Let her alone; she has kept this for the day of My burial.
12:8 For the poor you have with you always, but Me you do not have always."
12:9 Now a great many of the Jews knew that He was there; and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might also see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.