Mark 14:7

For ye have the poor always with you, and whensoever ye will ye can do them good: but me ye have not always.

Whensoever ye will ... These words are found only in Mark. They show that it was no part of Jesus' purpose to restrict or prohibit help of the poor, a duty always capable of fulfillment through the projected existence of the poor throughout the ages. Human nature being what it is, there is no system, environment, or government with the power to eliminate poverty. Commendable as efforts to do so assuredly are, they invariably find frustration in the terminator of human nature.