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Matthew 26:11

American Standard Version

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

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Matthew 26:11 in other translations

For you always have the poor with you; but you don’t always have me.

Matthew 26:11 · World English Bible

Matthew 26:11 in context

  1. 9For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
  2. 10But Jesus perceiving it said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.
  3. 11For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
  4. 12For in that she poured this ointment upon my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.
  5. 13Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, that also which this woman hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.