Matthew 26:11
For you have the poor with you always; but you have not me always.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
In Context
12For she pouring this myrrh on my body, did it in order to my burial.
Cross References
Matthew 18:20For where two or three are assembled in my name, there I am in the midst of them.
Matthew 25:42For I was hungry, and you gave me nothing to eat: I was thirsty, and you gave me nothing to drink:
Mark 14:7For you have the poor always with you, and when you wish, you are able to do them good: but you have not me always.
John 13:33Children, I am still with you. You shall seek me, and as I said to the Jews, Whither I go, you are not able to come; and now I say to you.
John 16:5But now I go to Him that sent me; and no one of you asks me, Whither goest thou?
John 17:11And I am no longer in the world, and they are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them through my name whom thou hast given unto me, in order 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 →