The chapter advances a mental model in which Christ’s heart is gravitationally pulled toward misery, not pushed away by it. Gospel scenes repeatedly show him “moved with compassion” at concrete human need—touching lepers (Mark 1:41), weeping at a tomb (John 11:35–38), and feeding the hungry (Mark 8:2)—which signals a reflex of tender action rather than clinical detachment. This contravenes the common assumption that our weakness primarily provokes disappointment; instead, it activates his help. The trade-off to acknowledge is that such nearness to the unclean could be misconstrued as moral laxity; the text resolves this by showing that his purity is not compromised by compassion, because he bears sin to destroy it, not to excuse it (1 Peter 2:24).