Quotes About Compassion

Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.

When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, He was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.

Jesus wept.

Then the Jews said, “See how He loved him!”

“Why wasnít this perfume sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?”

The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have Me.”

It was now just before the Passover Feast, and Jesus knew that His hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the very end.

So He got up from the supper, laid aside His outer garments, and wrapped a towel around His waist.

After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciplesí feet and dry them with the towel that was around Him.

When Jesus had washed their feet and put on His outer garments, He reclined with them again and asked, “Do you know what I have done for you?

So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one anotherís feet.

I have set you an example so that you should do as I have done for you.

A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.

By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”

This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

This is My command to you: Love one another.

When Jesus saw His mother and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, “Woman, here is your son.”

Then He said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” So from that hour, this disciple took her into his home.

A jar of sour wine was sitting there. So they soaked a sponge in the wine, put it on a stalk of hyssop, and lifted it to His mouth.

If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you withhold forgiveness from anyone, it is withheld.”

Selling their possessions and goods, they shared with anyone who was in need.

If we are being examined today about a kind service to a man who was lame, to determine how he was healed,

There were no needy ones among them, because those who owned lands or houses would sell their property, bring the proceeds from the sales,

When he was set outside, Pharaohís daughter took him and brought him up as her own son.