Matthew 26:11
You always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me.
Text-Critical English NT
In The King James Version
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
In Context
12She has put this ointment on my body to prepare me for burial.
Cross References
Matthew 18:20For where two or three are gathered together in my name, I am there among them.”
Matthew 25:42For I was hungry, and you did not give me anything to eat; I was thirsty, and you did not give me anything to drink;
Mark 14:7For you always have the poor with you, and you can do good to them whenever you want, but you will not always have me.
John 13:33Little children, I am with you for a little while longer. You will seek me, and just as I said to the Jews, now I say to you also, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’
John 16:5“But now I am going to him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, ‘Where are yoʋ going?’
John 17:11I will no longer remain in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to yoʋ. Holy Father, keep them in yoʋr name, which yoʋ have given 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 →