NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 11

Matthew 26:11

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For you always have the poor with you, but you don’t always have me.

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Matthew 26:11 in context

Matthew 26:8–14

8

But when his disciples saw this, they were indignant, saying, “Why this waste?

9

For this ointment might have been sold for much and given to the poor.”

10

However, knowing this, Jesus said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? 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.

12

For in pouring this ointment on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.

13

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.”

14

Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests

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