For you have the poor with you always, but Me you do not have always.

Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack: Go your way, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, take up the cross, and follow Me.”

Then one poor widow came and threw in two mites, which make a quadrans.

So He called His disciples to Himself and said to them, “Assuredly, I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all those who have given to the treasury;

For it might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor.” And they criticized her sharply.

For you have the poor with you always, and whenever you wish you may do them good; but Me you do not have always.

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind, To set at liberty those who are oppressed;

The Beatitudes

Then He lifted up His eyes toward His disciples, and said: “Blessed are you poor, For yours is the kingdom of God.

Jesus answered and said to them, “Go and tell John the things you have seen and heard: that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have the gospel preached to them.

But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind.

So that servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor and the maimed and the lame and the blind.’

So when Jesus heard these things, He said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.”

Then Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, I give half of my goods to the poor; and if I have taken anything from anyone by false accusation, I restore fourfold.”

“Why was this fragrant oil not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?”

This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the money box; and he used to take what was put in it.

For the poor you have with you always, but Me you do not have always.”

For some thought, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus had said to him, “Buy those things we need for the feast,” or that he should give something to the poor.

For it pleased those from Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints who are in Jerusalem.

To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten, and homeless.

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.

As it is written: “He has dispersed abroad, He has given to the poor; His righteousness endures forever.”

They desired only that we should remember the poor, the very thing which I also was eager to do.

The Perspective of Rich and Poor

Let the lowly brother glory in his exaltation,

For if there should come into your assembly a man with gold rings, in fine apparel, and there should also come in a poor man in filthy clothes,