The most careless eye discerns it. It was, "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often would I have gathered thy children together as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, but ye would not!" Shall it ever be a hardship to be denied the satisfying draught when he said, "I thirst." Shake off the thought, any of you who suppose that God will have pity on you because you have endured affliction. III. Let patience have her perfect work. He is thirsty still, you see, for our poor love, and surely we cannot deny it to him. To-day I invite your attention to another Prince, marching in another fashion through his metropolis. "He that taketh not up his cross and followeth not after me," says Christ, "is not worthy of me." Then I will thirst with him and not complain, I will suffer with him and not murmur." If he carried all the cross, yet he only carried the wood of it; he did not bear the sin which made it such a load. May we not despise our loaded table while he is neglected? The ceremonial of the Jewish religion denies him any participation in its pomps; the priests condemn him never again to tread the hallowed floors, never again to look upon the consecrated altars in the place of his people's worship. 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!". Our Lord Jesus came forth, willing to be exposed to their scorn. Nor does the grief end here, for have not the best works we have ever done, and the best feelings we ever felt, and the best prayers we have ever offered, been tart and sour with sin? Will your thoroughfares be thronged? And what makes him love us so? For him they have no tolerance. He saith, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock." And yet, though he was Lord of all he had so fully taken upon himself the form of a servant and was so perfectly made in the likeness of sinful flesh, that he cried with fainting voice, "I thirst." " And He bowed His head, and gave up His spirit. Borrowed from his lips it well suiteth my mouth. Mine is adorned with garments crimsoned with his own blood. 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. And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and they put on Him a purple robe. Yonder young Prince is ruddy with the bloom of early youth and health; my Master's visage is more marred than that of any man. Did not the high-priest bring the scape-goat, and put both his hands upon its head, confessing the sins of the people, that thus those sins might be laid upon the goat? So he was thirsting then. 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. Ah, beloved, our Lord was so truly man that all our griefs remind us of him: the next time we are thirsty we may gaze upon him; and whenever we see a friend faint and thirsting while dying we may behold our Lord dimly, but truly, mirrored in his members. Nay more; he is banished from their society, as if he were a leper whose breath would be infectious whose presence would scatter plague. 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. A refined and heavenly appetite, a craving for our Lord. I will give you one of his thirsty prayers "Father, I will that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory." The great Surety says, "I thirst," because he is placed in the sinner's stead, and he must therefore undergo the penalty of sin for the ungodly. 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 Let me add, that when we look at the sufferings of Christ, we ought to sorrow deeply for the souls of all unregenerate men and women. Ray Stedman To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible. Your noble Prince is preparing for his marriage: mine is hastening to his doom. " And having said this, He breathed His last. 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." O Lord Jesus, we love thee and we worship thee! There is the complete justification of the believer, since the work by which he is accepted is fully accomplished. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it. This was the homage which the Son of God received from men; harmless and gentle, he came here with no purpose but that of doing good, and this is how mankind treated him. Here, as everywhere else, we are constrained to say of our Lord, "Never man spake like this man." I think, beloved friends, that the cry of "I thirst" was THE MYSTICAL EXPRESSION OF THE DESIRE OF HIS HEART "I thirst." That thirst was caused, perhaps, in part by the loss of blood, and by the fever created by the irritation caused by his four grievous wounds. 1. ( John 19:1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. In fact, the tendency is to exalt man above God and give him the highest place. Therefore while he thirsts give him to drink this day. You young believers, who have lately followed Christ, should father and mother forsake you, remember you were bidden to reckon upon it; should brothers and sisters deride, you must put this down as part of the cost of being a Christian. Some of you will! Fathers and confessors, preachers and divines have delighted to dwell upon every syllable of these matchless cries. We know from experience that the present effect of sin in every man who indulges in it is thirst of soul. "I thirst," ay, this is my soul's word with her Lord. What if the bread be dry, what if the medicine be nauseous; yet for his thirst there was no relief but gall and vinegar, and dare we complain? Your heir of royalty is magnificently drawn along the streets in his stately chariot, sitting at his ease: my princely sufferer walks with weary feet, marking the road with crimson drops; not borne, but bearing; not carried, but carrying his cross. (1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. Certainly it is so with you; you do but carry the light end of the cross; Christ bore the heavier end. See, brethren, where sin begins, and mark that there it ends. After preaching his first sermon at the age of 16, he became pastor of the church in Waterbeach at the age of 17. They take matters very gently; they think it unnecessary to be soldiers of the cross. "And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes," vinegar, and not wine; sourness, and not sweetness. The reed was no mere rush from the brook, it was of a stouter kind, of which easterns often make walkingstaves, the blows were cruel as well as insulting; and the crown was not of straw but thorn, hence it produced pain as well as pictured scorn. Beware of rendering him homage and dishonouring his name at the same time. Jesus paused, and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me; but weep for yourselves and for your children." He ran and filled a sponge with vinegar: it was the best way he knew of putting a few drops of moisture to the lips of one who was suffering so much; but though he felt a degree of pity, it was such as one might show to a dog; he felt no reverence, but mocked as he relieved. It is the empty cup placed under the flowing stream; the penniless hand held out for heavenly alms." . My Lord is not altogether without his espoused one. It is not fit that he should live." Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. John Chapter 19 - In-depth, verse-by-verse commentary and Bible study of John chapter 19 in plain English. John 19:16 . The sorrow of these good women was a very proper sorrow; Jesus did not by any means forbid it, he only recommended another sorrow as being better; not finding fault with this, but still commending that. Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was born in Essex, England. I do not know how far it was from Pilate's house to the Mount of Doom. It is the way whereby many shall be brought to Christ, when this blessed soul-thirst of true Christian charity shall be upon those who are themselves saved. Christ did but transfer to Simon the outward frame, the mere tree; but the curse of the tree, which was our sin and its punishment, rested on Jesus' shoulders still. Jesus is therefore hunted out of the city, beyond the gate, with the will and force of his oven nation, but he journeys not against his own will; even as the lamb goeth as willingly to the shambles as to the meadow, so doth Christ cheerfully take up his cross and go without the camp. Sister, thirst for the salvation of your class, thirst for the redemption of your family, thirst for the conversion of your husband. In the fourth place, one or two words upon CHRIST'S FELLOW-SUFFERERS. 2 And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, . "I thirst," is his human body tormented by grievous pain. "When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost." John 19:30. We may well remember our faults this day. Some of those whom we loved very dearly we have seen quite unable to help themselves; the death sweat has been upon them, and this has been one of the marks of their approaching dissolution, that they have been parched with thirst, and could only mutter between their half-closed lips, "Give me to drink." John 19:28 . It showed that he had laid down his life of himself. 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. Save your tears for them; Christ asks them not in sympathy for himself. I have sometimes met with persons who have suffered much; they have lost money, they have worked hard all their lives, or they have laid for years upon a bed of sickness, and they therefore suppose that because they have suffered so much in this life, they shall thus escape the punishment of sin hereafter. There are some who in company hold their tongues, and never say a good word for Christ. Scripture provides a wealth . 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. The Redeemer's cry of "I thirst" is a solemn lesson of patience to his afflicted. Well might the Master say, "Weep not for me, but for yourselves." We ought all to have a longing for conversions. I. They are created in the minds of men. Oh! Grant me only thus much of likeness: we have here a Prince with his bride, bearing his banner, and wearing his royal robes, traversing the streets of his own city, surrounded by a throng who shout aloud, and a multitude who gaze with interest profound. He thirsted to pluck us from between the jaws of hell, to pay our redemption price, and set us free from the eternal condemnation which hung over us; and when on the cross the work was almost done his thirst was not assuaged, and could not be till he could say, "It is finished." If not, may that picture of Christ fainting in the streets lead you to do so this morning. Come to him in prayer, come to him in fellowship, come to him by perfect consecration, come to him by surrendering your whole being to the sweet mysterious influences of his Spirit. He who stood in our stead has finished all his work, and now his spirit comes back to the Father, and he brings us with him. I wonder he has ever received them, as one marvels why he received this vinegar; and yet he has received them, and smiled upon us for presenting them. Hate sin, and heartily loathe it; but thirst to be holy as God is holy, thirst to be like Christ, thirst to bring glory to his sacred name by complete conformity to his will. When Jesus had spoken these words, He went out with His disciples over the Brook Kidron, where there was a garden, which He and His disciples entered. And yet again in the eighth chapter the bride saith, "I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate." "The sea is his, and he made it," and all fountains and springs are of his digging. John 19:28 J.R. Thomson This is both the shortest of all the dying utterances of Jesus, and it is the one which is most closely related to himself. Amid all the anguish of his spirit his last words prove him to have remained fully self-possessed, true to his forgiving nature, true to his kingly office, true to his filial relationship, true to his God, true to his love of the written word, true to his glorious work, and true to his faith in his Father. They put on him his own clothes that the multitudes might discern him to be the same man, the very man who had professed to be the Messias. No longer sink below the brim; But overflow, and pour me down A living and life-giving stream.". Jesus took the wrath; Jesus carried the sin; and now all that you endure is but for his sake, that you may be conformed unto his image, and may aid in gathering his people into his family. Oh, wondrous substitution of the just for the unjust, of God for man, of the perfect Christ for us guilty, hell-deserving rebels. Even now to a large extent the true Christian is like a Pariah, lower than the lowest caste, in the judgment of some. May the Holy Spirit often lead us to glean therein. Largest collection of Spurgeon resources online, including a complete 63 volume set of sermons, audio sermons, books, and quotes. 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. Today! Though bitter to him in the speaking it will be sweet to us in the hearing, so sweet that all the bitterness of our trials shall be forgotten as we remember the vinegar and gall of which he drank. It seems to me very wonderful that this "I thirst" should be, as it were, the clearance of it all. Let this mind be in you also. A Christian living to indulge the base appetites of a brute beast, to eat and to drink almost to gluttony and drunkenness, is utterly unworthy of the name. We are to reckon upon all this, and should the worst befal us, it is to be no strange thing to us. The flood of his grief has passed the high-water mark, and began to be assuaged. Come hither, ye lovers of Immanuel, and I will show you this great sight the King of sorrow marching to his throne of grief, the cross. And said, Hail, King of the Jews!_ John 19:16 . Now recollect, if Jesus had not thirsted, every one of us would have thirsted for ever afar off from God, with an impassable gulf between us and heaven. "We, whose proneness to forget Thy dear love, on Olivet Bathed thy brow with bloody sweat; "We whose sins, with awful power, Like a cloud did o'er thee lower, In that God-excluding hour; "We, who still, in thought and dead, Often hold the bitter reed To thee, in thy time of need.". The power to suffer for another, the capacity to be self-denying even to an extreme to accomplish some great work for God this is a thing to be sought after, and must be gained before our work is done, and in this Jesus is before us our example and our strength. II. 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." Perhaps, dear sister, you carry about with you a gnawing disease which eats at your heart, but Jesus took our sicknesses, and his cup was more bitter than yours. See, brethren, here is a picture of what we may expect from men if we are faithful to our Master. III. We used to melt when we heard about his sufferings, but we did not turn from our sins. And well they may; the son of such noble parents deserves a nation's love. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. Amen. Hark how their loud voices demand that he should be hastened to execution! It was one of Death's castles; here he stored his gloomiest trophies; he was the grim lord of that stronghold. Charles Haddon Spurgeon December 1, 1861 Scripture: John 19:30 From: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 7 It is Finished! "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do" is the first. IV. Was not the Redeemer led thither to aggravate his shame? Beloved, there is now upon our Master, and there always has been, a thirst after the love of his people. It began with the mouth of appetite, when it was sinfully gratified, and it ends when a kindred appetite is graciously denied. 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." Come, bring him your warm heart, and let him drink from that purified chalice as much as he wills. Are you so frozen at heart that not a cup of cold water can be melted for Jesus? The great agony of being forsaken by God was over, and he felt faint when the strain was withdrawn. The mind of man is like the daughters of the horseleech, which cry for ever, "Give, give." He did not spare his Son the stripes. wherein we see the Son of man in the gentleness of a son caring for his bereaved mother. Christ was spit upon with shame; sinner, what shame will be yours! We read, "The soldiers also mocked him, offering him vinegar." They put his own clothes upon him, because they were the perquisites of the executioner, as modern hangmen take the garments of those whom they execute, so did the four soldiers claim a right to his raiment. In the same song he speaks of his church, and says, "The roof of thy mouth is as the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak." May the Holy Ghost help us to hear a fourth tuning of the dolorous music, "I thirst." Beloved, let us comfort ourselves with this thought, that in our case, as in Simon's, it is not our cross, but Christ's cross which we carry. Will your Prince be sumptuously arrayed? Come let us pour out full flagons, until his joy is fulfilled in us. points to the anguish of his soul; "I thirst" expresses in part the torture of his body; and they were both needful, because it is written of the God of justice that he is "able to destroy both soul and body in hell," and the pangs that are due to law are of both kinds, touching both heart and flesh. That man is a fool and deserves no pity, who purposely excites the disgust of other people. Dear friends, we must remember that, although no one died on the cross with Christ, for atonement must be executed by a solitary Savior, yet another person did carry the cross for Christ; for this world, while redeemed by price by Christ, and by Christ alone, is to be redeemed by divine power manifested in the sufferings and labors of the saints as well as those of Christ. Cover it with a cloak? In the former cry, as he opened Paradise, you saw the Son of God; now you see him who was verily and truly born of a women, made under the law; and under the law you see him still, for he honours his mother and cares for her in the last article of death. It was most fitting that every word of our Lord upon the cross should be gathered up and preserved. He must love his chosen whom he has once begun to love, for he is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. John 1 19-51 Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 1:19-51 John 1:19. He loved the Gentile, but still Jerusalem was the city of the Great King. Jesus is formally condemned to crucifixion, but before he is led away he is given over to the Praetorian guards that those rough legionaries may insult him. There were, as you know, seven of those last words, and seven is the number of perfection and fulness; the number which blends the three of the infinite God with the four of complete creation. So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. Hast thou laid thy hand upon his head, confessed thy sin, and trusted in 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. Then thy sin lies not on thee; not one single ounce or drachma of it lies on thee; it has all been transferred by blessed imputation to Christ, and he bears it on his shoulder in the form of yonder heavy cross. Jesus said, "I thirst," and this is the complaint of a man. Oh! Our Lord is the Maker of the ocean and the waters that are above the firmament: it is his hand that stays or opens the bottles of heaven, and sendeth rain upon the evil and upon the good. Go ye, then, like the Master, expecting to be abused, to wear an ill-name, and to earn reproach; go ye, like him, without the camp. This thirst had been on him from the earliest of his earthly days. Read Joo 15:7 bible commentary from Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible by Charles Haddon Spurgeon FREE on BiblePortal.com 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. Hail, ye despised children of the sun, ye follow first after the King in the march of woe. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh." 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. Then comes the "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Beeke, Joel R. & Thompson, Nick. He is exiled from their friendship, too. 1 So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. Yet his language teaches us not to worship her, for he calls her "woman," but to honor him in whom his direst agony thought of her needs and griefs, as he also thinks of all his people, for these are his mother and sister and brother. I cannot give you more than a mere taste of this rich subject, but I have been most struck with two ways of regarding our Lord's last words. We all know that a different dress will often raise a doubt about the identity of an individual; but lo! 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." The extreme tension produced a burning feverishness. For a biblical, reformed, and historic collection of commentaries, the Geneva Series is unsurpassed. 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. The words, "I thirst," are a common voice in death chambers. V. I close with THE SAVIOR'S WARNING QUESTION "If they do these things in the green tree, what will they do in the dry?". No man dare call him friend now, or whisper a word of comfort to him. It is so with each one of you? What doth he say? You have, then, no true sympathy for Christ if you have not an earnest sympathy with those who would win souls for Christ. 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. John 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. January 1, 1970 A Plain Answer to an Important Enquiry "Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent." John vi. It is the opinion of some commentators that Simon only carried one end of the cross, and not the whole of it. Will ye raise a clamor of tumultuous shouting? While other religions create what appear to be worship-filled gatherings, they are empty and void of fact. When they had mocked him they pulled off the purple garment he had worn, this rough operation would cause much pain. London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. In the Lord of Hosts, who shows his power in the sufferings of Christ and of his Church. what a black thought crosses our mind! 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'? The last word but one, "It is finished." This was intended at once to proclaim his guilt and intimate his doom. Fix your hearts upon some unsaved one, and thirst until he is saved. Commentary on John 19:31-37 (Read John 19:31-37) A trial was made whether Jesus was dead. Brother, thirst I pray you to have your workpeople saved. Like the steps of a ladder or the links of a golden chain, there is a mutual dependence and interlinking of each of the cries, so that one leads to another and that to a third. Jesus was deserted of God; and if he, who was only imputedly a sinner, was deserted, how much more shall you be? There are more unlikely things than that you will be dead before next Sunday. 1. We do not read that they removed the crown of thorns, and therefore it is most probable, though not absolutely certain, that our Savior wore it along the Via Dolorosa, and also bore it upon his head when he was fastened to the cross. The spear broke up the very fountains of life; no human body could survive such a wound. For his sake we may rejoice in self-denials, and accept Christ and a crust as all we desire between here and heaven. He is not allowed to worship with them. John 19:4-5. London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. Romanists pretend to know; in fact they know the very spot where Veronica wiped the blessed face with her handkerchief, and found his likeness impressed upon it; we also know very well where that was not done; in fact they know the very spot where Jesus fainted, and if you go to Jerusalem you can see all these different places if you only carry enough credulity with you; but the fact is the city has been so razed, and burned, and ploughed, that there is little chance of distinguishing any of these positions, with the exception, it may be, of Mount Calvary, which being outside the walls may possibly still remain. She craved full flagons of love though she was already overpowered by it. Our sinful tongues, blistered by the fever of passion, must have burned for ever had not his tongue been tormented with thirst in our stead. A river of the water of life, pure as crystal, proceedeth to-day out of the throne of God and of the Lamb, and yet once he condescended to say, "I thirst," before his angelic guards, they would surely have emulated the courage of the men of David when they cut their way to the well of Bethlehem that was within the gate, and drew water in jeopardy of their lives. Thus have I tried to spy out a measure of teaching, by using that one glass for the soul's eye, through which we look upon "I thirst" as the ensign of his true humanity. Those once highly favored people of God who cursed themselves with, "His blood be upon us and upon our children," ought to make us mourn when we think of their present degradation. Do we not see here the truth of that which was set forth in shadow by the scape-goat? As you look at the cross upon his shoulders does it represent your sin? 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