But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.
Ver. 36. He was moved with compassion] His eye so affected his heart, that it even yearned (εσπλαγχνισθη) towards these silly souls. Ingemuit miserans graviter dextramque tetendit. (Virgil.)
As sheep without a shepherd] Their pastors were impostors, as Bernard complained of those in his time their Episcopi; Aposcopi (as Espencaeus hath it), their overseers, attendants. That judgment was now befallen them that Moses of old deprecated, Numbers 27:17. And this troubled our Saviour more than their bodily bondage to the Romans, which yet was very grievous.