Matthew 26:11
For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
In Context
10And Jesus knowing it, said to them: Why trouble ye the woman? For she wrought a good work upon me.
12For she, in pouring this ointment on my body, did it to prepare me for 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 did not give me drink;
Mark 14:7For the poor ye have always with you, and when ye will ye can do good to them; but me ye have not always.
John 13:33Children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye will seek me; and as I said to the Jews, whither I go ye can not come, so now I say to you.
John 16:5And now I go to him who sent me; and none of you asks me: Whither 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 those in thy name whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we 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 →