Far ye have the poor always with you, and whensoever ye will ye can ( δύνασθε) do them good: but me ye have not always. The little clause, "whensoever ye will ye can do them good," occurs only in St.
Mark. It is as though our Lord said, "The world always abounds with poor; therefore you always have it in your power to help them; but within a week I shall have gone from you, after which you will be unable to perform any service like this for me; yea, no more to see, to hear, to touch me.
Suffer, then, this woman to perform this ministry now for me, which after six days she will have no other opportunity of doing."