I'm atheist, but I've always wondered about this.
How do Christians interpret Jesus saying that 'the poor are always with us, but you won't always have me'? My understanding is that he'd just been anointed with expensive perfume, and his disciples were complaining that it could have been sold to raise money for the poor. How does this tie in with Christian ideas of charity? Doesn't it contradict what the church teaches about the virtues of poverty (eye of a needle, meek shall inherit the earth, Jesus being born in a stable etc).
Sorry, I'm not putting this very well and I'm really not trying to be goady, just very curious about how this scene fits in with the rest of the Bible.
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'The poor are always with us'
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nobodyknowsimhere · 13/06/2015 14:06
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