Matthew 26:11
For the poor you have always with you: but me you have not always.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
In Context
12For she in pouring this ointment upon my body, hath done it for my burial.
Cross References
Matthew 18:20For where there are two or three gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
Matthew 25:42For I was hungry, and you gave me not to eat: I was thirsty, and you gave me not to drink.
Mark 14:7For the poor you have always with you: and whensoever you will, you may do them good: but me you have not always.
John 13:33Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You shall seek me; and as I said to the Jews: Whither I go you cannot come; so I say to you now.
John 16:5But I told you not these things from the beginning, because I was with you. And now I go to him that sent me, and none of you asketh me: Whither goest thou?
John 17:11And now I am not in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name whom thou has given me; that they may be one, as we also are.
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 →