Matthew 26:11
"for the poor you have with you always, but me you will not always have.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
In Context
12"In pouring this perfume on my body, she was preparing me for my burial.
Cross References
Matthew 18:20"For wherever there are two or three gathered together in my name, there am I among them."
Matthew 25:42"for I was hungry, and you gave me no food; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink;
Mark 14:7She has done a beautiful thing to me. For you always have the poor among you, and can show them kindness whenever you wish, but me you will not always have.
John 13:33"My little children, I am only to be with you a little longer. You will seek me; just as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I go you cannot come,’ so now I say to you.
John 16:5"But now I go my way to Him who sent me, yet none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’
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 →