Matthew 26:11
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
In Context
12For in that she poured this ointment upon my body, she did it to prepare me for 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 always with you, and whensoever ye will ye can 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 unto you.
John 16:5But now I go unto him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?
John 17:11And I am no more in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name which thou hast given me, that they may be one, even 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 →