Matthew 26:11
for you always have the poor with you, and you do not always have Me;
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
In Context
12for she having put this ointment on My body—for My burial she did [it].
Cross References
Matthew 18:20for where there are two or three gathered together—to My Name, there am I in the midst of them.”
Matthew 25:42for I hungered, and you gave Me nothing to eat; I thirsted, and you gave Me nothing to drink;
Mark 14:7for you always have the poor with you, and whenever you may will you are able to do them good, but you do not always have Me;
John 13:33Little children, yet a little [while] am I with you; you will seek Me, and according as I said to the Jews, I also say to you now: To where I go away, you are not able to come.
John 16:5and now I go away to Him who sent Me, and none of you asks Me, To where do you go?
John 17:11and I am no longer in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your Name, whom You have given to Me, that they may be one 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 →