Matthew 26:11
For the poor you will always have with you. But you will not always have me.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
In Context
12For in pouring this ointment on my body, she has prepared for my burial.
Cross References
Matthew 18:20For wherever two or three are gathered in my name, there am I, in their midst.”
Matthew 25:42For I was hungry, and you did not give me to eat; I was thirsty, and you did not give me to drink;
Mark 14:7For the poor, you have with you always. And whenever you wish, you are able to do good to them. But you do not have me always.
John 13:33Little sons, for a brief while, I am with you. You shall seek me, and just as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you are not able to go,’ so also I say to you now.
John 16:5But I did not tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you. And now I am going to him who sent me. And no one among you has asked me, ‘Where are you going?’
John 17:11And though I am not in the world, these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Father most holy, preserve them in your name, those whom you have given to me, so that they may be one, even as we are one.
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 →