Matthew 26:11
For yee haue the poore alwayes with you, but me shall yee not haue alwaies.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
In Context
12For in that shee powred this oyntment on my bodie, shee did it to burie me.
Cross References
Matthew 18:20For where two or three are gathered together in my Name, there am I in the mids of them.
Matthew 25:42For I was an hungred, and ye gaue me no meate: I thirsted, and ye gaue me no drinke:
Mark 14:7For yee haue the poore with you alwaies, and when yee will yee may doe them good, but me yee shall not haue alwaies.
John 13:33Litle children, yet a litle while am I with you: ye shall seeke me, but as I sayde vnto the Iewes, Whither I goe, can ye not come: also to you say I nowe,
John 16:5But now I go my way to him that sent me, and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?
John 17:11And nowe am I no more in the world, but these are in the worlde, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keepe them in thy Name, euen them whome thou hast giuen mee, that they may bee 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 →