Matthew 26:11 - New International Version (Anglicised) The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For you always have the poor among you, but you will not always have Me. [Deut. 15:11.] American Standard Version (1901) For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always. Common English Bible You always have the poor with you, but you won’t always have me. Catholic Public Domain Version For the poor you will always have with you. But you will not always have me. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For the poor you have always with you: but me you have not always. |
Aware of this, Jesus said to them, ‘Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful thing to me.
and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.’
The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me.
You will always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me.’
‘My children, I will be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so I tell you now: where I am going, you cannot come.
Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.
I came from the Father and entered the world; now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.’
but now I am going to him who sent me. None of you asks me, “Where are you going?”
I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one.
Heaven must receive him until the time comes for God to restore everything, as he promised long ago through his holy prophets.
All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor, the very thing I had been eager to do all along.
There will always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be open-handed towards your fellow Israelites who are poor and needy in your land.
If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?