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Matthew 26:11
For the poor you have ever with you, but me you have not for ever.
Matthew 26:11 · Bible in Basic English
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Matthew 26:11 in other translations
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have Me.
For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.
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In context
8 But when the disciples saw it they were angry, saying, To what purpose is this waste?
9 For we might have got much money for this and given it to the poor.
10 But Jesus, seeing it, said to them, Why are you troubling the woman? she has done a kind act to me.
11 For the poor you have ever with you, but me you have not for ever.
12 For in putting this perfume on my body, she did it to make me ready for my last resting-place.
13 Truly I say to you, Wherever this good news goes out in all the world, what this woman has done will be talked of in memory of her.
14 Then one of the twelve, who was named Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said,
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