Matthew 26:11
for the poor ye have always with you, but me ye have not always:
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
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 odoriferous ointment on my body, she hath done it for my burial.
Cross References
Matthew 18:20For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
Matthew 25:42for I was hungry, and ye gave me nothing to eat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me nothing to drink:
Mark 14:7For the poor ye have always with you, and when ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
John 13:33My dear children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: as I said to the Jews, Whither I am going, ye cannot come; so say I now to you.
John 16:5But now I am going away to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither art thou going?
John 17:11And now no longer am I in this world, but these are in the world, and I am coming to thee. Holy Father! preserve them for thy name’s sake whom thou hast given 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 →