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Matthew 9:35-38; The Workers Are Few (Word Study)
By
Mike Nappa
Matthew 9:36 reports this of Jesus, “When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them…” (italics mine). That two-word phrase the NIV translates as “had compassion” is actually just one word in the original Greek: splagchnízomai—and it means more than we might assume. Our tendency is to look at Matthew 9:36 and think that…
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