Matthew 26:11
For all of you have the poor always with you; but me all of you have not always.
Updated King James Version
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 has 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 an hungered, and all of you gave me no food: I was thirsty, and all of you gave me no drink:
Mark 14:7For all of you have the poor with you always, and whenever all of you will all of you may do them good: but me all of you have not always.
John 13:33Little children, yet a little while I am with you. All of you shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Where I go, all of you cannot come; so now I say to you.
John 16:5But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asks me, Where go you?
John 17:11And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to you. Holy Father, keep through yours own name those whom you have given 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 →