And he pitied him and stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, "I do choose! Be cured!"

And when the Master saw her, he pitied her, and said to her, "Do not weep."

But a Samaritan who was traveling that way came upon him, and when he saw him he pitied him,

And he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him, and pitied him, and ran and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

you who were once "no people" but are now "God's people"; once "unpitied" but now "pitied indeed."