"It was the peculiarity of the greatness of Jesus that it stooped --- I will not say, but -- penetrated without stooping, to the humblest wants; not simply stepped casually aside to look at the most ignominious sorrows, but went directly to them, and lived wholly in them; scattered glorious miracles and sacred truths along the hidden by-paths and in the mean recesses of existence; serving the mendicant and the widow, blessing the child, healing leprosy of the body and soul, and kneeling to wash even the traitors feet. In Himself was the serene and unapproachable dignity of a higher nature, a mind at one with the universe and its Author; in His acts, a frugal respect for the most neglected elements of human life, declaring He came not to be ministered unto but to minister."  James Martineau.