You may sit under a sermon, and feel a great deal, but your feeling is worthless unless it leads you to weep for yourselves and for your children. Oh! Christ comes forth from Pilate's hall with the cumbrous wood upon his shoulder, but through weariness he travels slowly, and his enemies urgent for his death, and half afraid, from his emaciated appearance, that he may die before he reaches the place of execution, allow another to carry his burden. O brother, if he says, "I thirst" and you bring him a lukewarm heart, that is worse than vinegar, for he has said, "I will spue thee out of my mouth." As these seven sayings were so faithfully recorded, we do not wonder that they have frequently been the subject of devout meditation. "I thirst" is the fifth cry, and its utterance teaches us the truth of Scripture, for all things were accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, and therefore our Lord said, "I thirst." It is done. Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 19 John 19:1-16 John 19:1. the people saw him in the street, not arrayed in the purple robe, but wearing his garment without seam, woven from the top throughout, the common smock-frock, in fact, of the countrymen of Palestine, and they said at once, "Yes, 'tis he, the man who healed the sick, and raised the dead; the mighty teacher who was wont to sit upon the mountain-top, or stand in the temple courts and preach with authority, and not as the Scribes." That little rising ground, which perhaps was called Golgotha, the place of a skull, from its somewhat resembling the crown of a man's skull, was the common place of execution. March 1st, 1863 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). Others think that Simon carried the whole of the cross. "He that taketh not up his cross and followeth not after me," says Christ, "is not worthy of me." We know from experience that the present effect of sin in every man who indulges in it is thirst of soul. John 19:16 . These are silken days, and religion fights not so stern a battle. Some of these were persons of considerable rank; many of them had ministered to him of their substance; amidst the din and howling of the crowd, and the noise of the soldiery, they raised an exceeding loud and bitter cry, like Rachel weeping for her children, who would not be comforted, because they were not. You do suffer. London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. C.H. Charles Haddon Spurgeon December 1, 1861 Scripture: John 19:30 From: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 7 It is Finished! According to the sacred canticle of love, in the fifth chapter of the Song of Songs, we learn that when he drank in those olden times it was in the garden of his church that he was refreshed. Your Prince is surrounded by a multitude of friends; hark how they joyously welcome him! O thou blessed Master, if we are indeed nailed up to the tree with thee, give us a thirst after thee with a thirst which only the cup of "the new covenant in thy blood" can ever satisfy. Always was he in harmony with himself, and his own body was always expressive of his soul's cravings as well as of its own longings. Such a greeting had the Lord of glory, but alas, it was not the shout of welcome, but the yell of "Away with him! "The sea is his, and he made it," and all fountains and springs are of his digging. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. sinner, if God hides his face from Christ, how much less will he spare you! I saw the other day the emblem of a serpent with its tail in its mouth, and if I carry it a little beyond the artist's intention the symbol may set forth appetite swallowing up itself. Did not the prophecies say that man would give to his incarnate God gall to eat and vinegar to drink? Our text is the shortest of all the words of Calvary; it stands as two words in our language "I thirst," but in the Greek it is only one. Some of us, indeed, confess that, if we had read this narrative of suffering in a romance, we should have wept copiously, but the story of Christ's sufferings does not cause the excitement and emotion one would expect. What learn we here as we see Christ led forth? For a biblical, reformed, and historic collection of commentaries, the Geneva Series is unsurpassed. His great love makes him thirst to have us much nearer than we are; he will never be satisfied till all his redeemed are beyond gunshot of thee enemy. He must love, it is his nature. Some of them have no objection to worship with a poor congregation till they grow rich, and then, forsooth, they must go with the world's church, to mingle with fashion and gentility. Our Lord Jesus came forth, willing to be exposed to their scorn. Inductive Bible study on John 19. I have heard sermons, and studied works by Romish writers upon the passion and agony, which have moved me to copious tears, but I am not clear that all the emotion was profitable. He believed, as a Roman in gods many. Here we behold his human soul in anguish, his inmost heart overwhelmed by the withdrawing of Jehovah's face, and made to cry out as if in perplexity and amazement. Cheerfully accept this burden, ye servants of the Lord. The last word but one, "It is finished." I fear me, beloved, I fear me that the most of us if we ever do carry it, carry it by compulsion, at least when it first comes on to our shoulders we do not like it, and would fain run from it, but the world compels us to bear Christ's cross. Acts 19 Acts 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. It seems to me very wonderful that this "I thirst" should be, as it were, the clearance of it all. My heart shall not be content till he is all in all to me, and I am altogether lost in him. Christ does exempt you from sin, but not from sorrow; he does take the curse of the cross, but he does not take the cross of the curse away from you. The world has in former days counted it God's service to kill the saints. Oh! The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel, they cannot spare him the agonies of dying on the cross, they will therefore remit the labor of carrying it. Exposition of the Gospel according to John by Hendriksen, William, 1900-1982 (1953) 526 pages 19 ratings and the answer shall come back, "Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; but ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh." Our Lord says, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink," that thirst being the result of sin in every ungodly man at this moment. "Wist ye not," said he, while yet a boy, "that I must be about my Father's business?" But further, my brethren; this, I think, is the great lesson from Christ's being slaughtered without the gate of the city let us go forth, therefore, without the camp, bearing his reproach. May the Holy Ghost help us to hear a fourth tuning of the dolorous music, "I thirst." Methinks Death thought it a splendid triumph when he saw the Master impaled and bleeding in the dominions of destruction; little did he know that the grave was to be rifled, and himself destroyed, by that crucified Son of man. For the thousands of eyes which shall gaze upon the youthful Prince, I offer the gaze of men and angels. "Verily I say unto thee, to-day shalt thou be with me in paradise" this is the Lord Jesus in kingly power, opening with the key of David a door which none can shut, admitting into the gates of heaven the poor soul who had confessed him on the tree. Mine is adorned with garments crimsoned with his own blood. We may well remember our faults this day. The Redeemer's cry of "I thirst" is a solemn lesson of patience to his afflicted. He pitied the sufferer, but he thought so little of him that he joined in the voice of scorn. And they asked him, What then? You and I have nothing else to preach. what a black thought crosses our mind! 2 And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, . His wounds unstaunched and raw, fresh bleeding from beneath the lash, would make this scarlet robe adhere to him, and when it was dragged off; his gashes would bleed anew. Although Simon carried Christ's cross, he did not volunteer to do it, but they compelled him. We read, "The soldiers also mocked him, offering him vinegar." Some of you will not be baptized because you think people will say, "He is a professor; how holy he ought to be." While thus we admire his condescension let our thoughts also turn with delight to his sure sympathy: for if Jesus said, "I thirst," then he knows all our frailties and woes. A few times the sun will go up and down the hill; a few more moons will wax and wane, and then we shall receive the glory. Our Lord felt that grievous drought of dissolution by which all moisture seems dried up, and the flesh returns to the dust of death: this those know who have commenced to tread the valley of the shadow of death. The extreme tension produced a burning feverishness. I cannot roll up into one word all the mass of sorrows which met upon the head of Christ who died for us, therefore it is impossible for me to tell you what streams, what oceans of grief must roll over your spirit if you die as you now are. Jesus paused, and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me; but weep for yourselves and for your children." The nails were fastened in the most sensitive parts of the body, and the wounds were widened as the weight of his body dragged the nails through his blessed flesh, and tore his tender nerves. Here, as everywhere else, we are constrained to say of our Lord, "Never man spake like this man." He loved the Gentile, but still Jerusalem was the city of the Great King. They would be very proper, very proper; God forbid that we should stay them, except with the gentle words of Christ, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me." But how vast was the disparity! This is what the Apostle meant when he said, "I fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the Church." ( John 19:1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. With "I thirst" the evil is destroyed and receives its expiation. It is not sorrow over Rome, but Jerusalem. Usually the crier went before with an announcement such as this, "This is Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews, who for making himself a King, and stirring up the people, has been condemned to die." Borrowed from his lips it well suiteth my mouth. He said, "I thirst," in order that one might bring him drink, even as you have wished to have a cooling draught handed to you when you could not help yourself. When you are molested for your piety; when your religion brings the trial of cruel mockings upon you; then remember, it is not your cross, it is Christ's cross; and how delightful is it to carry the cross of our Lord Jesus? See how man at his best mingles admiration of the Saviour's person with scorn of his claims; writing books to hold him up as an example and at the same moment rejecting his deity; admitting that he was a wonderful man, but denying his most sacred mission; extolling his ethical teaching and then trampling on his blood: thus giving him drink, but that drink vinegar. See, brethren, where sin begins, and mark that there it ends. This very plainly sets forth the true and proper humanity of Christ, who to the end recognised his human relationship to Mary, of whom he was born. Was not the Redeemer led thither to aggravate his shame? He goes forth, then, bearing his cross. Well, then, what means this cry, "I thirst," but this, that we should thirst too? Partner with StudyLight.org as God uses us to make a difference for those displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine. One would wish to be as a spouse, who, when she had already been feasting in the banqueting-house, and had found his fruit sweet to her taste, so that she was overjoyed, yet cried out, "Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love." Hast thou laid thy hand upon his head, confessed thy sin, and trusted in him? 1 So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. Let us now gaze for awhile upon CHRIST CARRYING HIS CROSS. It is the opinion of some commentators that Simon only carried one end of the cross, and not the whole of it. Let us exult as we see our Substitute going through with his work even to the bitter end, and then with a "Consummatum est" returning to his Father, God. NOTICE the connection, or you will miss the meaning of the words; for at first sight it looks as if our Saviour taught us that it John:6:29 The Marvellous Magnet He had been all night in agony, he had spent the early morning at the hall of Caiaphas, he had been hurried, as I described to you last Sunday, from Caiaphas to Pilate, from Pilate to Herod, and from Herod back again to Pilate; he had, therefore, but little strength left, and you will not wonder that by-and-bye we find him staggering beneath his load, and that another is called to bear it with him. They take matters very gently; they think it unnecessary to be soldiers of the cross. 36 These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled: "Not one of his bones will be broken,"[ a] 37 and, as another scripture says, "They will look on the one they have pierced."[ b] Read full chapter Footnotes Christ must die a felon's death, and it must be upon the felon's gallows, in the place where horrid crimes had met their due reward. "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani," what an awful shriek! "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do" is the first. I have touched that point very lightly because I want a little more time to dwell upon a fourth view of this scene. Revelation: The Lectio Continua Expository Commentary on the New Testament (Beeke) $30.00 $40.00. John 1 19-51 Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 1:19-51 John 1:19. What joy, what satisfaotion this will give if we can sing, "My soul looks back to see The burden thou didst bear, When hastening to the accursed tree, And knows her guilt was there!". This thirst had been on him from the earliest of his earthly days. Certainly it is so with you; you do but carry the light end of the cross; Christ bore the heavier end. God forbid! I pray you, lend your ears to such faint words as I can utter on a subject all too high for me, the march of the world's Maker along the way of his great sorrow; your Redeemer traversing the rugged path of suffering, along which he went with heaving heart and heavy footsteps, that he might pave a royal road of mercy for his enemies. And yet he placed himself for our sakes into a position of shame and suffering where none would wait upon him, but when he cried, "I thirst," they gave him vinegar to drink. A strong emphasis in Spurgeon's preaching was God's grace and sovereignty over man's helpless state. O souls, burdened with sin, rest ye here, and resting live. Now Christ standing in the stead of the ungodly suffers thirst as a type of his enduring the result of sin. He calls for that: will you not give it to him? John 19:1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. He is not allowed to worship with them. Whether a disciple then or not, we have every reason to believe that he became so afterwards; he was the father, we read, of Alexander and Rufus, two persons who appear to have been well known in the early Church; let us hope that salvation came to his house when he was compelled to bear the Savior's cross. It is that he may eat and drink with you, for he promises that if we open to him he will enter in and sup with us and we with him. Let all your love be his. "It is finished" is the last word but one, and there you see the perfected Saviour, the Captain of our salvation, who has completed the undertaking upon which he had entered, finished transgression, made an end of sin, and brought in ever lasting righteousness. We are to reckon upon all this, and should the worst befal us, it is to be no strange thing to us. Will your Prince be decorated with honors? Your noble Prince is preparing for his marriage: mine is hastening to his doom. Among other things methinks he meant this "If I, the innocent substitute for sinners, suffer thus, what will be done when the sinner himself the dry tree whose sins are his own, and not merely imputed to him, shall fall into the hands of an angry God." It was a confirmation of the Scripture testimony with regard to man's natural enmity to God. Read Joo 15:7 bible commentary from Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible by Charles Haddon Spurgeon FREE on BiblePortal.com The Via Dolorosa, as the Romanists call it, is a long street at the present time, but it may have been but a few yards. Universal manhood, left to itself, rejects, crucifies, and mocks the Christ of God. Weep not for him, but for these. According to modern thought man is a very fine and noble creature, struggling to become better. No man dare call him friend now, or whisper a word of comfort to him. There have been times, and the days may come again, when faithfulness to Christ has entailed exclusion from what is called "society." She craved full flagons of love though she was already overpowered by it. 'Tis his cross, and he goes before you as a shepherd goes before his sheep. Oh! If you will look, there is the mark of his blood-red shoulder upon that heavy cross. Romish expositors, who draw upon their prolific fancy for their facts, tell us that he had a rope about his neck with which they roughly dragged him to the tree; this is one of the most probable of their surmises, since it was not unusual for the Romans thus to conduct criminals to the gallows. There is bread upon your table to-day, and there will be at least a cup of cold water to refresh you. There was a deeper meaning in his words than she dreamed of, as a verse further down fully proves, when he said to his disciples, "I have meat to eat that ye know not of." He saw its streets flowing like bloody rivers; he saw the temple naming up to heaven; he marked the walls loaded with Jewish captives crucified by command of Titus; he saw the city razed to the ground and sown with salt, and he said, "Weep not for me, but for yourselves and for your children, for the day shall come when ye shall say to the rocks, Hide us, and to the mountains, Fall upon us." Coming fresh from the country, not knowing what was going on, he joined with the mob, and they made him carry the cross. He would have sacrificed himself to save his countrymen, so heartily did he desire their eternal welfare. We can never forget the painful scenes of which we have been witness, when we have watched the dissolving of the human frame. O my hearers, beware of praising Jesus and denying his atoning sacrifice. Calvary was like our Old Bailey; it was the usual place of execution for the district. This was the act too of man at his best, when he is moved to pity; for it seems clear that he who lifted up the wet sponge to the Redeemer's lips, did it in compassion. Do not let the picture vanish till you have satisfied yourselves once for all that Christ was here the substitute for you. He was innocent, and yet he thirsted; shall we marvel if guilty ones are now and then chastened? Did we not do so years ago before we knew him? "I thirst," ay, this is my soul's word with her Lord. I differ from them greatly, but I will say this, that next to the actual enjoyment of my Lord's presence I love to hunger and to thirst after him. Beloved, can you say he carried your sin? John 19:1-16 - Glory Mocked and Condemned John 19:17-30 - Glory Crucified John 19:31-42 - Glory Buried A. Jesus is condemned to crucifixion. May we not be half ashamed of our pleasures when he says, "I thirst"? He came to save, and man denied him hospitality: at the first there was no room for him at the inn, and at the last there was not one cool cup of water for him to drink; but when he thirsted they gave him vinegar to drink. Let this mind be in you also. Jesus was proved to be really man, because he suffered the pains which belong to manhood. My well beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: and he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein." He thirsts to bless you and to receive your grateful love in return; he thirsts to see you looking with believing eye to his fulness, and holding out your emptiness that he may supply it. But my Prince is hated without a cause. We ought not to forget the Jews. The excitement of a great struggle makes men forget thirst and faintness; it is only when all is over that they come back to themselves and note the spending of their strength. We are in the world, but we must never be of it; we are not to be secluded like monks in the cloister, but we are to be separated like Jews among Gentiles; men, but not of men; helping, aiding, befriending, teaching, comforting, instructing, but not sinning either to escape a frown or to win a smile. In your chamber let the gasp of your Lord as he said, "I thirst," go through your ears, and as you hear it let it touch your heart and cause you to gird up yourself and say, "Doth he say, 'I thirst'? It is not fit that he should live." Will your thoroughfares be thronged? I am ashamed of some professed Christians, heartily ashamed of them! Hunger and thirst after righteousness, for you shall be filled. I will not say it is because we are unfaithful to our Master that the world is more kind to us, but I half suspect it is, and it is very possible that if we were more thoroughly Christians the world would more heartily detest us, and if we would cleave more closely to Christ we might expect to receive more slander, more abuse, less tolerance, and less favor from men. May the Holy Spirit often lead us to glean therein. Lloyd-Jones opens John 19:31-37 to answer that very question. Mark you, the ransom of men was all paid by Christ; that was redemption by price. 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