Matthew 26:11
For the poor ye have at all times with you; but I am not with you always
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
In Context
12And this her act, pouring the ointment on my body, she hath done as it were for my burial.
Cross References
Matthew 18:20For where two or three are assembled in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
Matthew 25:42For I was hungry, and ye gave me no food; and I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink;
Mark 14:7For the poor ye have always with you; and when ye please, ye can do them kind offices: but I am not always with you.
John 13:33My children, a little longer I am with you; and ye will seek for me; and, as I said to the Jews, Whither I go ye cannot come, so I now say to you.
John 16:5But now, I am going to Him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?
John 17:11Henceforth I am not in the world; but these are in the world, and I go to thee. Holy Father, keep them in that thy name, which thou hast given to 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 →