Deuteronomy 15:4, The Poor Will Be Always With You

However, there need be no poor people among you, for in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess as your inheritance, he will richly bless you.

//One day, a woman poured a costly ointment over Jesus’ head and/or feet, and some who were watching this extravagance balked. Couldn’t this ointment be put to better use than anointing the Messiah? Perhaps it could be sold and the money given to the poor?

Jesus replied that the poor would always be available, but that he was soon leaving the...