Matthew 26:11

The Passion Translation

You will always have someone poor whom you can help, but you will not always have me.

Cross References

Matthew 18:20

For wherever two or three come together in honor of my name, I am right there with them!”

Matthew 26:10

Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them, “Why are you critical of this woman? She has done a beautiful act of kindness.

Matthew 28:20

And teach them to faithfully follow all that I have commanded you. And never forget that I am with you every day, even to the completion of this age.”

Mark 14:7

You will always have the poor, whom you can help whenever you want, but you will not always have me.

John 12:8

You’ll always have the poor with you; but you won’t always have me.”

John 13:33

“My dear friends, I only have a brief time left to be with you. And then you will search and long for me. But I tell you what I told the Jewish leaders: you’ll not be able to come where I am.

John 14:19

Soon I will leave this world and they will see me no longer, but you will see me, because I will live again, and you will come alive too.

John 16:28

I came to you sent from the Father’s presence, and I entered into the created world, and now I will leave this world and return to the Father’s side.”

John 16:5

But now that I’m about to leave you and go back to join the One who sent me, you need to be told. Yet, not one of you are asking me where I’m going.

John 17:11

“Holy Father, I am about to leave this world to return and be with you, but my disciples will remain here. Holy Father, each one that you have given me, keep them in your name so that they will be united as one, even as we are one.

Acts 3:21

For he must remain in heaven until the restoration of all things has taken place, fulfilling everything that God said long ago through his holy prophets.

Galatians 2:10

They simply requested one thing of me: that I would remember the poor and needy, which was the burden I was already carrying in my heart.

1 John 3:17

If anyone sees a fellow believer in need and has the means to help him, yet shows no pity and closes his heart against him, how is it even possible that God’s love lives in him?