Matthew 26:11
The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have Me.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
In Context
10Aware of this, Jesus asked, “Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful deed to Me.
12By pouring this perfume on Me, she has prepared My body for burial.
Cross References
Matthew 18:20For where two or three gather together in My name, there am I with them.”
Matthew 25:42For I was hungry and you gave Me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me nothing to drink,
Mark 14:7The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them whenever you want. But you will not always have Me.
John 13:33Little children, I am with you only a little while longer. You will look for Me, and as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you: ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’
John 16:5Now, however, I am going to Him who sent Me; yet none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’
John 17:11I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, protect them by Your name, the name You gave Me, so 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 →