For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.”
Matthew 26:11 - Y'all Version Bible For y’all will always have the poor with you*, but y’all won’t 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. |
For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.”
Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why are y’all bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful service for me.
teaching them to observe all things that I commanded y’all. And surely I am always with y’all, to the end of the age.”
For y’all will always have the poor among y’all, and whenever y’all want, y’all can do them good. But y’all won’t always have me.
For y’all will always have the poor among y’all, but y’all won’t always have me.”
Little children, I will be with y’all a little while longer. Y’all will look for me, and just as I said to the Jews I am telling y’all now, ‘Where I am going, y’all can’t come,’
In a little while, the world will see me no more, but y’all will see me. Because I live, y’all will live also.
I came from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world and go to the Father.”
But now I am going to ʜɪᴍ who sent me, and none of y’all asks me, ‘Where are you going?’
I am no longer in the world, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them through your name which you have given me, so that they may be one, even as we are one.
whom heaven must receive until the time of the restoration of all things, which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets.
They only asked that we would remember the poor, which I was also eager to do.
For the poor will never cease out of the land. Therefore I command you to open-open your hand to your sibling, to your needy, and to your poor, in your land.
If someone has worldly possessions and sees his sibling in need but closes his heart toward them, how does God’s love remain in that person?