Matthew 26:11
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
King James Version
In Context
12For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did 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 an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:
Mark 14:7For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
John 13:33Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you.
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 now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those 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 →