"For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always." — Matthew 26:11

Matthew 26:11 · KJV

“For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.”

— Matthew 26:11

Verse 10

When Jesus understood {it}, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.

Verse 12

For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did {it} for my burial.

Matthew 26 — Context

For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.

When Jesus understood {it}, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.

For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.

For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did {it} for my burial.

Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, {there} shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 15:11

For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

Mark 14:7

For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.

John 12:8

For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.

John 16:28

I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.

John 14:19

Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.

John 13:33

Little 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 to you.

John 16:5

But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?

Matthew 25:34-40

Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: