Matthew 26:11
For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
In Context
12For in pouring this ointment on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.
Cross References
Matthew 18:20For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.”
Matthew 25:42for I was hungry, and you didn’t give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink;
Mark 14:7For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me.
John 13:33Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come,’ so now I tell you.
John 16:5But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’
John 17:11I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even 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 →