Quotes About Compassion

Jesus looked around at them with anger and sorrow at their hardness of heart. Then He said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out, and it was restored.

For He had healed so many that all who had diseases were pressing forward to touch Him.

A synagogue leader named Jairus arrived, and seeing Jesus, he fell at His feet

and pleaded with Him urgently, “My little daughter is near death. Please come and place Your hands on her, so that she will be healed and live.”

So Jesus went with him, and a large crowd followed and pressed around Him.

When they arrived at the house of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw the commotion and the people weeping and wailing loudly.

And they laughed at Him. After He had put them all outside, He took the childís father and mother and His own companions, and went in to see the child.

Taking her by the hand, Jesus said, “Talitha koum!” which means, “Little girl, I say to you, get up!”

Then Jesus gave strict orders that no one should know about this, and He told them to give her something to eat.

When Jesus stepped ashore and saw a large crowd, He had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And He began to teach them many things.

But Jesus told them, “You give them something to eat.” They asked Him, “Should we go out and spend two hundred denarii to give all of them bread to eat?”

and ran through that whole region, carrying the sick on mats to wherever they heard He was.

And wherever He went—villages and towns and countrysides—they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged Him just to let them touch the fringe of His cloak. And all who touched Him were healed.

Instead, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit soon heard about Jesus, and she came and fell at His feet.

Now she was a Greek woman of Syrophoenician origin, and she kept asking Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.

“First let the children have their fill,” He said. “For it is not right to take the childrenís bread and toss it to the dogs.”

“Yes, Lord,” she replied, “even the dogs under the table eat the childrenís crumbs.”

Then Jesus told her, “Because of this answer, you may go. The demon has left your daughter.”

Some people brought to Him a man who was deaf and hardly able to speak, and they begged Jesus to place His hand on him.

So Jesus took him aside privately, away from the crowd, and put His fingers into the manís ears. Then He spit and touched the manís tongue.

In those days the crowd once again became very large, and they had nothing to eat. Jesus called the disciples to Him and said,

“I have compassion for this crowd, because they have already been with Me three days and have nothing to eat.

If I send them home hungry, they will faint along the way. For some of them have come a great distance.”

When they arrived at Bethsaida, some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him.