Matthew 26:11
You will always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me.
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
In Context
12In putting this perfume on my body she did it with a view to my burial.
Cross References
Matthew 18:20Because where there are two or three gathered together into my name, there I am in their midst!”
Matthew 25:42For I was hungry and you did not give me food; I was thirsty and you did not give me drink;
Mark 14:7You will always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish you can do them good; but you will not always have me.
John 13:33“Little children, I am with you just a little longer. You will look for me, and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going you cannot come,’ so now I say to you.
John 16:5“Now then, I am going away to Him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’
John 17:11Now I am no longer in the world, yet these are in the world, and I am coming to You. “Holy Father, keep them in Your name which You have given to me, so that they may be one just 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 →