• O For A Thousand Tongues to Sing  (Charles Wesley)
• Living for Jesus  (Thomas Obediah Chisholm)
• I Surrender All  (Judson Wheeler Van DeVenter)
• Have Thine Own Way  (Adelaide Addison Pollard)
• I Have Decided to Follow Jesus  (An Unknown Indian Prince)
• Bringing in the Sheaves  (Knowles Shaw)
• I'd Rather Have Jesus - Lyrics (Rhea F. Miller)

• A lot of people skip over verse 8.
• A lot of people quote verse 8 in a way that contradicts the reference Jesus made to Deut. 15:11.

• We need wisdom, when two duties come in competition, to know which to give the preference to , which must be determined by the circumstances.

- Matthew Henry, Commentary, Vol. 5, p. 1070
• The saying is a reminder that costly gifts of devotion to Jesus neither preclude nor exclude the obligation of concern for the poor.

- Massey H. Shepherd, Jr., Interpreter's One-Volume Commentary, p. 721
• Judas could have given prudential reasons for inhibiting such extravagant giving;  Mary would have found it difficult to give a rational explanation of her action.

- A.J. Macleod, New Bible Commentary (1954), p. 888
• The due expenditures of art and taste are right, as tending to civilize and elevate mankind;  the wealth laid out in awakening the sentiment of worship is still more right, as contributing to spiritualize the heart of man.

- D.D. Whedon, Commentary on the Gospels, Vol. Luke-John, p. 343
• [Jesus] invites us to recognize his own presence in the poor who are his brethren...

- Catechism of the Catholic Church,  ¶2449
• As to his presence with us by the grace and power of his Spirit, his dwelling in us, and also feeding us with his flesh and blood, this has nothing to do with bodily observances. 

- John Calvin, Commentary on John 12:8
• [The reading in some ancient manuscripts] intimates that only a part of the ointment was then used, and that the rest was kept till the time that the women came to embalm the body of Jesus.

- Adam Clarke, Commentary on John 12:7
• Her anointing His feet is pointed out here, as shewing that all that was of Christ, that which was Christ, had to her a value which prevented her regarding anything else.

- John Darby, Synopsis on John 12
• Beautiful are the lessons here: (1) Love to Christ transfigures the humblest services...  (2) Works of utility should never be set in opposition to the promptings of self-sacrificing love, and the sincerity of those who do so is to be suspected.

- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown, Commentary on John 12:8
• For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

-God, Deuteronomy 15:11

John 12:8

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• PTOCHOS, see Beg;  broad sense of poor
• condition of one who crouches and cowers
• hides oneself in fear
• poverty-stricken, powerless to enrich

W.E. Vine, Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words, p. 101 and 864

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