Matthew 26:11
For ye shall have povre folcke alwayes with you: but me shall ye not have all wayes.
William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)
In The King James Version
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
In Context
12And in yt she casted this oyntment on my bodye she dyd it to burye me wt all.
Cross References
Matthew 18:20For where two or thre are gathered togedder in my name there am I in the myddes of them.
Matthew 25:42For I was an hungred and ye gave me no meate. I thursted and ye gave me no drinke.
Mark 14:7For ye shall have poore with you all wayes: and when soever ye will ye maye do them good: but me ye shall not have alwayes.
John 13:33Deare chyldren yet a lytell whyle am I with you. Ye shall seke me and as I sayde vnto the Iewes whither I goo thither can ye not come. Also to you saye I nowe.
John 16:5But now I goo my waye to him that sent me and none of you axeth me: whither goest thou?
John 17:11And now am I no moare in the worlde but they are in the worlde and I come to ye. Wholy father kepe in thyne awne name the which thou hast geven me that they maye 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 →