11 Bible Verses about Christ Not Always With People

"for the poor you have with you always, but me you will not always have.

She has done a beautiful thing to me. For you always have the poor among you, and can show them kindness whenever you wish, but me you will not always have.

for the poor you have with you always, but me you have not always."

Then Jesus said to them. "Still for a little longer I am with you, and then I am going my way to him who sent me.

"My little children, I am only to be with you a little longer. You will seek me; just as I said to the Jews, 'Where I go you cannot come,' so now I say to you.

"Can the friends fast at a wedding-feast," said Jesus, "so long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom has been taken from them, and then they will fast.

"Can friends of the bridegroom fast while he is still with them?" asked Jesus. "As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

"Can you make the bridal party fast," he asked, while the bridegroom is still with them?

In reply Jesus said: "O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I endure you? Bring him here to me!"

"O unbelieving generation!" replied Jesus; "how long must I be with you? How long must I be patient with you? Bring him to me."

"O faithless and perverse generation," said Jesus, "how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son to me."