World English Bible
Matthew 26:11
“For you always have the poor with you; but you don't always have me.”
Verse in context — Matthew 26
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For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
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However, knowing this, Jesus said to them, "Why do you trouble the woman? Because she has done a good work for me.
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For you always have the poor with you; but you don't always have me.
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For in pouring this ointment on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.
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Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of as a memorial of her.
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