How do you think Jesus sympathises with us? How might he relate to what we’ve been through? What does it look like for him to empathise with our weaknesses? Jesus is as approachable and compassionate as he was when he walked the earth. It is in ‘our weaknesses’ that Jesus sympathises with us. ‘Sympathise' here is not cool and detached pity. It is a depth of solidarity such as is echoed in our own lives most closely only as parents to children. Indeed it is even deeper than that. In our pain, Jesus is pained; in our suffering, he feels the suffering as his own even though it isn’t.