Matthew 26:11
For you always have the poor with you; but you do not always have me.
Revised King James New Testament
In The King James Version
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
In Context
12When she 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 hungry, and you gave me no food: I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink:
Mark 14:7For you have the poor with you always, and whenever you wish you may do them good: but you will not always have me.
John 13:33Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You shall seek me: and as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you: Where I go, you cannot come.
John 16:5But now I go to him who sent me; and none of you asks me, Where are you going?
John 17:11And now I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to you. Holy Father, keep those whom you have given me in your own name, 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 →