Matthew 26:11
You'll always have the poor with you, but you won't always have me.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
In Context
12By pouring this perfume on my body she's prepared me for burial.
Cross References
Matthew 18:20For where two or three gather together in my name, I'm there with them.”
Matthew 25:42For I was hungry and you didn't give me anything to eat. I was thirsty and you didn't give me a drink.
Mark 14:7You'll always have the poor with you, and you can help them whenever you want. But you won't always have me with you.
John 13:33My children, I will be with you only a little while longer. You will look for me, but I'm telling you now just as I told the Jews: you cannot come where I'm going.
John 16:5But now I'm going to the one who sent me, and yet not one of you is asking me, ‘Where are you going?’
John 17:11I am leaving the world, but they will remain in the world; I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name, the name that you gave to me, so that they may be one, just as we are one.
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 →