11For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
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For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
But now I go my way to him that sent me; and none of you asketh me, Whither goest thou?
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-13)In this passage of story, we have, I. The singular kindness of a good woman to our Lord Jesus in anointing his head, Matt. 26:6 , 7 . It was in Bethany , a village hard by Jerusalem, and in the house of Simon the leper . Probably, he was one who had been miraculously cleansed from his leprosy by our Lord Jesus, and he would express his gratitude to Christ by entertaining him; nor did Christ disdai…
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