Matthew 26:11
For ye always have the poor with you, but ye do not always have me.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
In Context
12For by pouring this ointment upon my body, she did it for my burial.
Cross References
Matthew 18:20For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
Matthew 25:42For I was hungry, and ye did not give me to eat, I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink,
Mark 14:7For ye always have the poor with you, and whenever ye may desire ye can do them well, but ye do not always have me.
John 13:33Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, Where I go, ye cannot come, I also now say to you.
John 16:5But now I go to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, Where do thou go?
John 17:11And I am no more in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name that thou have given to me, so that they may be one, just as we.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 26:7-14
Christ Anointed at Bethany. 6 Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, 7 There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat. 8 But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste? 9 For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor. 10 When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me. 11 For ye have… Read the whole commentary →