Matthew 26:11 KJV
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
Matthew 26:11, King James Version
In context
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 the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
12 For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.
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.