CCC 549

By freeing some individuals from the earthly evils of hunger, injustice, illness and death,²⁷⁴ Cf. Jn 6:5-15; Lk 19:8; Mt 11:5. Jesus performed messianic signs. Nevertheless he did not come to abolish all evils here below,²⁷⁵ Cf. Lk 12 13-14; Jn 18:36. but to free men from the gravest slavery, sin, which thwarts them in their vocation as God's sons and causes all forms of human bondage.²⁷⁶ Cf. Jn 8:34-36.