Matthew 26:11
For ye haue the poore alwayes with you: but me shall ye not haue alwayes.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
In Context
12For in that she hath cast this oyntment on my body, she dyd it to bury me.
Cross References
Matthew 18:20For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the myddes of them.
Matthew 25:42For I was an hungred, and ye gaue me no meate: I was thirstie, and ye gaue me no drynke.
Mark 14:7For ye haue poore with you alwayes, and whensoeuer ye wyll, ye may do the good: but me haue ye not alwayes.
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 →