Matthew 26:11
For in all time the poor you have with you, but me you have not in all time with you.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
In Context
10But Jeshu knew, and said to them, Why grieve you the woman? a good work hath she wrought upon me.
12For this (woman) who hath poured this balsam upon my body, as unto my funeral hath done.
Cross References
Matthew 18:20For where two or three are assembled in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
Matthew 25:42For I was hungry and you gave me not to eat; and I thirsted, but you made me not to drink;
Mark 14:7For in all time you have the poor with you, and, when you will, you can do them good; but I am not at all time with you.
John 13:33My sons, a little longer I am with you, and you will seek me; and, as I said to the Jihudoyee, Whither I go you cannot come, so to you say I now.
John 16:5But now I go unto Him who sent me; and no man of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?
John 17:11Henceforth I am not in the world; but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them through thy name, that (name) which thou hast given to me, 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 →