The risen Redeemer was filled with compassion and empathy for those who suffered from all manner of physical and emotional ailments, as well as those who suffered spiritually, because he knew what they felt; he had experienced it. His compassion and mercy had been thoroughly perfected in Gethsemane and on Golgotha as he partook of the “bitter cup.”
His feelings for and hearings of the afflicted at Bountiful were a fulfillment of Alma’s messianic prophecy.
“And he shall go forth, suffering pains and afflictions and temptations of every kind; and this that the word might be fulfilled which saith he will take upon him the pains and sicknesses of his people. And he will take upon him death, that he may loose the bands of death which bind his people; and he will take upon him their infirmities, that his bowels may be filled with mercy, according to the flesh, that he may know according to the flesh how to succor his people according to their affirmities.”
(Alma 7:11-12)