The observations of Christ tell us so much about Him and then how he sees us tells us so much about ourselves. From Mark 6:34 we are told Jesus “saw much people”, and we are also told “he was moved with compassion”. Jesus was affected by the condition of the crowd. He looked at them with a capacity to genuinely care that the crowd was in duress and he was by nature required to react, so He had compassion. His reaction tells us so much about Him. The Greek word for this compassion is rooted in the Greek for bowels or spleen. His reaction was from a deep sensitivity inside of Christ capable of seeing desperation and confusion, then being able to translate that which He saw into a natural response, not using a perfect logical analysis, but by simply being who he was, the loving Son of God. He could clearly see the plight of man and he cared deeply. How blessed we are that he being man and God he could care and remedy. We clearly see the compassionate prophet. Though his compassion was natural to him, it was his reaction to what he saw in the crowd representing fallen man. He saw that we as fallen beings are in desperate need for two reasons. First we are like sheep, we are not self-sustaining; secondly without Christ we need a Sheppard a sustainer. Seeing perfectly their predicament and caring deeply from within, “he began to teach them many things”. His solution was to give them relief through the truth. Fallen man receiving truth is evidence of the deep love of God. How foolish we would be to reject his compassion which comes in the form of truth found in the Holy Scripture.