Matthew 26:11 “The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have M…”

Matthew 26:11

The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have Me.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

For yee haue the poore alwayes with you, but me shall yee not haue alwaies.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

for the poor always ye have with you, and me ye have not always;

Bible in Basic English

For the poor you have ever with you, but me you have not for ever.

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Cross references

“ye have”

Deuteronomy 15:11 Mark 14:7 John 12:8 Matthew 25:34–40 Matthew 25:42–45 Galatians 2:10

Deuteronomy 15:11 · BSB

For there will never cease to be poor in the land; that is why I am commanding you to open wide your hand to your brother and to the poor and needy in your land.

Mark 14:7 · BSB

The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them whenever you want. But you will not always have Me.

John 12:8 · BSB

The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have Me.”

Matthew 25:34–40 · BSB

Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

Matthew 25:42–45 · BSB

For I was hungry and you gave Me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me nothing to drink,

Galatians 2:10 · BSB

They only asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.

“but”

John 16:28 John 13:33 John 14:19 John 16:5 Matthew 18:20 Matthew 28:20

John 16:28 · BSB

I came from the Father and entered the world. In turn, I will leave the world and go to the Father.”

John 13:33 · BSB

Little children, I am with you only a little while longer. You will look for Me, and as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you: ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’

John 14:19 · BSB

In a little while the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you also will live.

John 16:5 · BSB

Now, however, I am going to Him who sent Me; yet none of you asks Me, ‘Where are You going?’

Matthew 18:20 · BSB

For where two or three gather together in My name, there am I with them.”

Matthew 28:20 · BSB

and teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

10Aware of this, Jesus asked, “Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful deed to Me.

12By pouring this perfume on Me, she has prepared My body for burial.

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