Matthew 26:11
For ye have the poor always with you, but me ye have not always.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
In Context
12For in pouring out this ointment on my body, she has done it for my burying.
Cross References
Matthew 18:20For where two or three are gathered together unto my name, there am I in the midst of them.
Matthew 25:42for I hungered, and ye gave me not to eat; I thirsted, and ye gave me not to drink;
Mark 14:7for ye have the poor always with you, and whenever ye would ye can do them good; but me ye have not always.
John 13:33Children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me; and, as I said to the Jews, Where I go ye cannot come, I say to you also now.
John 16:5But now I go to him that has sent me, and none of you demands of me, Where goest thou?
John 17:11And I am no longer in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name which thou hast given me, that they may be one 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 →