Jesus in his solidarity with the marginal ones is moved to compassion....
The compassion of Jesus isn't simply a personal emotional reaction. It's a public criticism in which he dares to act upon his concern against the entire numbness of his social context: Empires live by numbness.
Empires, in their militarism, expect numbness about the human cost of war. Corporate economies expect blindness to the cost of poverty and exploitation. Governments and societies of domination go to great lengths to keep numbness intact.
Jesus penetrates numbness with his compassion. With his compassion takes the first step by making visible the odd abnormality that had become business as usual in this world.
- Walter Brueggemann, The Prophetic Imagination
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