43. Compassionate or just empathetic?

In this episode we discuss the important difference between empathy and compassion.

Episodes referenced:

• Episode 39: "Seventy-seven times"
• Episode 42: "By this all people will know..."

www.blueletterbible.org is the resource that I mentioned that is helpful for doing studies in the original languages.

Here are the words that I focused on in this episode (click on the highlighted link to go to the corresponding page):

• splagchnizomai (σπλαγχνίζομαι G4697)
• splagchnon (σπλάγχνον G4698)

List of verses where splagchnizomai  is used:

• Matthew 9:36
• Matthew 14:14
• Matthew 15:32
• Matthew 18:27
• Matthew 20:34
• Mark 1:41
• Mark 6:34
• Mark 8:2
• Mark 9:22
• Luke 7:13
• Luke 10:33
• Luke 15:20

Scriptures referenced in this episode:

• Romans 12:15b
• Matthew 9:35-10:8
• Acts 1:8
• Matthew 14:13-21
• Matthew 15:32-39
• Matthew 18:21-35 (especially verses 25-27)
• Matthew 20:29-34
• Mark 1:40-42
• Luke 10:25-37 (especially verse 33)
• Luke 15:11-32 (especially verse 20)
• Matthew 5:46
• Colossians 3:12-14

**CORRECTIONS/CLARIFICATIONS**

• When reading the passage out of Matthew 15, I somehow accidentally jumped over verse 35, which says, "And directing the crowd to sit down on the ground"

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