This gentleness of compassion, giving direction to his interest in men, attached to all Jesus’ deeds. His advent into the world had been in response to the world’s need for a Savior, and he never forgot his prime purpose. His chief duty was to deliver the evangel of his own sacrificial death until his cross should be prepared, but such a ministry correlated so many forces that Jesus could not neglect to enunciate the principles that govern social, civic and theologic duties. The pulsating life around him stirred him to compassion and service. His compassionate interest in the poor oppressed classes was in great contrast to the course of his contemporaries. The kingdom of God should become love, joy, righteousness and peace because of the personal sovereignty of the Messiah, whose life of earthly service and whose institution of the kingdom were characteristically gentle and lovable.

I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost. Mark 1:8

Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill his promises to her!” Luke 1:45

3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. (Isa 53:3-5)

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