Matthew 26:11
You always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
In Context
12In pouring this perfume on my body, she prepares me for my burial.
Cross References
Matthew 18:20For where two or three have come together in my name, I am present with them.”
Matthew 25:42For, when I was hungry, you gave me no food; when I was thirsty, you gave me no drink;
Mark 14:7You always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish you can do good to them; but you will not always have me.
John 13:33My children, I am to be with you but a little while longer. You will look for me; and what I said to the people – ‘You cannot come where I am going’ – I now say to you.
John 16:5I did not tell you all this at first, because I was with you. But now I am to return to him who sent me; and yet not one of you asks me – ‘Where are you going?’
John 17:11Now I am to be in this world no longer, but they are still to be in the world, and I am to come to you. Holy Father, keep them by that revelation of your name which you have given me, so that they may be one, 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 →