Matthew 26:11
The poor you always have with you, but me you have not always.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
In Context
12In pouring this ointment over me, her object was to prepare me for burial.
Cross References
Matthew 18:20For where there are two or three assembled in my name, there am I in the midst of them."
Matthew 25:42For when I was hungry, you gave me nothing to eat; when thirsty, you gave me nothing to drink;
Mark 14:7For you always have the poor among you, and whenever you choose you can do acts of kindness to them; but me you have not always.
John 13:33Dear children, I am still with you a little longer. You will seek me, but, as I said to the Jews, `Where I am going you cannot come,' so for the present I say to you.
John 16:5But now I an returning to Him who sent me; and not one of you asks me where I am going.
John 17:11I am now no longer in the world, but they are in the world and I am coming to Thee. "Holy Father, keep them true to Thy name--the name which Thou hast given me to bear--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 →