Charles Spurgeon Commentary Matthew 26:11

"For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always." — Matthew 26:11 (ASV)

Our Lord always cared for the poor. He was Himself poor. He was the poor people’s Preacher. He fed the hungry poor and healed the sick poor. He would always have His people show their love to Him by caring for the poor, but He had reached the one occasion in His life when it was fitting that something should be done especially for Himself, and this woman, by the intuition of love, did that very thing. Oh, that we might all love Christ as intensely as she did!