Matthew 26:11
You always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me.
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
In Context
12For when she poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.
Cross References
Matthew 18:20For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in their midst.”
Matthew 25:42because I was hungry, but you did not give me food; I was thirsty, but you did not give me a drink;
Mark 14:7You always have the poor with you, and whenever you desire you can do good to them, but you will not always have me.
John 13:33Little children, I am with you for still a short amount of time. You will look for me, and as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going, you cannot come.' Now I also say this to you.
John 16:5But now I go to him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, 'Where are you going?'
John 17:11I am no longer in the world, but these people are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name that you have given me so that they will 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 →