Title: He had compassion on them
The mark of a genuine leader is compassion, when compassion is defined as “to suffer with”.
The Lord Jesus didn’t estrange himself from the darkness and the ignorance and the hopelessness that had oppressed the people and the land.
He had nothing to gain, but all to give.
He was drawn to the people because of their illnesses, their spiritual blindness, their callous rebellion, their superficial worship, their helplessness against attacks by evil spirits, their heavy burdens, their transgressions; and he was more than willing to suffer with them and for them, in order to make them partakers of life and the resurrection they never deserved.
