Matthew 26:11

11 For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.

Ver. 11. The poor ye have always with you ] To try and to exercise your liberality, yea, your justice, Matthew 6:1 , as the Syriac calleth it, Proverbs 3:27 . Withhold not thy goods from these owners thereof.

But me ye have not always ] Christ dwelt in the flesh, as in a tent or booth, John 1:14 . He sojourned here for a while only; his abode with us was but temporary, as the Greek word there importeth ( εσκηνωσεν , ex quo intelligitur Christi moram apud nos temporariam fuisse. Beza).