In Jesus we see both the holiness and the love of God expressed, in a way we can understand.  His teaching set before human beings perfection itself: “Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect” (NRSV, Matthew 5:48) and his own example conformed to that in every respect, without a single failing.  And in his ministry he also showed his Divine love for humanity by his miracles of healing and of mercy.

We have only to recall the multitude of sick people who, as a matter of course, were laid out in long lines filling the streets, and how he healed everyone as he picked his way between them; or again his compassion for the hungry crowd whom he fed with the loaves and fishes.