Can they be compared to generous wine? And what makes him love us so? We are to reckon upon all this, and should the worst befal us, it is to be no strange thing to us. 2 And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, . They force him without the walls, and are not satisfied till they have rid themselves of his obnoxious presence. O souls, burdened with sin, rest ye here, and resting live. A strong emphasis in Spurgeon's preaching was God's grace and sovereignty over man's helpless state. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. You see there the multitude are leading him forth from the temple. He would have sacrificed himself to save his countrymen, so heartily did he desire their eternal welfare. This was intended at once to proclaim his guilt and intimate his doom. The Geneva Series of Commentaries include historic commentaries on biblical books written by some of the great theologians in the history of the church. 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. 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. 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. "His way was much rougher and darker than mine; Did Christ, my Lord, suffer, and shall I repine?". _Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. Oh! When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid: It shows he was afraid all along the coward the vacillating coward and now a fresh superstition seizes upon him. "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani," what an awful shriek! Cheerfully accept this burden, ye servants of the Lord. You carry the cross after him. Ray Stedman But ye ask me where is the spouse, the king's daughter fair and beautiful? Let all your love be his. is the fourth cry, and it illustrates the penalty endured by our Substitute when he bore our sins, and so was forsaken of his God. I think, beloved friends, that the cry of "I thirst" was THE MYSTICAL EXPRESSION OF THE DESIRE OF HIS HEART "I thirst." Alas, my brethren, I cannot say much on the score of man's cruelty to our Lord without touching myself and you. II. Come let us pour out full flagons, until his joy is fulfilled in us. 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 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. Nay more; he is banished from their society, as if he were a leper whose breath would be infectious whose presence would scatter plague. Acts 19 Acts 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. Godly working-men, should your employers or your fellow-workers frown upon you; wives, should your husbands threaten to cast you out, remember, without the camp was Jesus' place, and without the camp is yours. 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. "To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise." The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God. "I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk; eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved." 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. John 1 19-51 Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 1:19-51 John 1:19. Will your Prince be decorated with honors? Others think that Simon carried the whole of the cross. Do you not remember how that thirst of his was strong in the old days of the prophet? They are created in the minds of men. I know he loves to receive from you, because he delights even in a cup of cold water that you give to one of his disciples; how much more will he delight in the giving of your whole self to him? He is greatly to be commended and admired, for his sin is said to be seeking after God, and his superstition is a struggling after light. The woes which broke the Savior's heart must crush theirs. The flood of his grief has passed the high-water mark, and began to be assuaged. No longer sink below the brim; But overflow, and pour me down A living and life-giving stream.". Beeke, Joel R. & Thompson, Nick. She craved full flagons of love though she was already overpowered by it. As not a bone of him shall be broken, so not a word shall be lost. What, then, dear friends, should be the sorrows excited by a view of Christ's sufferings? 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. "Weep for yourselves," says Christ, "rather than for me." 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. As for myself, I would grow more and more insatiable after my divine Lord, and when I have much of him I would still cry for more; and then for more, and still for more. 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. Rutherford says, "Whenever Christ gives us a cross, he cries, 'Halves, my love.'" Angels cannot suffer thirst. IV. 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." You may think that this remark is not needed; but I have met with one or two cases where it was required; and I have often said I would preach a sermon for even one person, and, therefore, I make this remark, even though it should rebuke but one. According to modern thought man is a very fine and noble creature, struggling to become better. Our Lord, however, endured thirst to an extreme degree, for it was the thirst of death which was upon him, and more, it was the thirst of one whose death was not a common one, for "he tasted death for every man." Will your thoroughfares be thronged? Includes cross references, questions, verse by verse commentary, outline, and applications on John chapter 19 for small groups. We know from experience that the present effect of sin in every man who indulges in it is thirst of soul. Was not the Redeemer led thither to aggravate his shame? We ought all to have a longing for conversions. Secondly, we shall regard these words, "I thirst," as THE TOKEN OF HIS SUFFERING SUBSTITUTION. 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. Take up your cross daily and follow him. There is one way by which you can tell whether he carried your sin or not. No man dare call him friend now, or whisper a word of comfort to him. 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. "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do" is the first. Ah, that I cannot tell, except his own great love. and they smote him with their hands. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it. Here you see how the mortal flesh had to share in the agony of the inward spirit. He knew once how to turn water into wine, and in matchless love he has often turned our sour drink-offerings into something sweet to himself, though in themselves, methinks, they have been the juice of sour grapes, sharp enough to set his teeth on edge. Let us muse upon the fact that Jesus was conducted without the gates of the city. Remember that, and expect to suffer. There were two other cross-bearers in the throng; they were malefactors; their crosses were just as heavy as the Lord's, and yet, at least, one of them had no sympathy with him, and his bearing the cross only led to his death, and not to his salvation. 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. The arrow which has lately pierced thee, my brother, was first stained with his blood. Did he not tell his disciples, "I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished?" It was pain that dried his mouth and made it like an oven, till he declared, in the language of the twenty-second psalm, "My tongue cleaveth to my jaws." I show unto you a more excellent way. The next time we are in pain or are suffering depression of spirit we will remember that our Lord understands it all, for he has had practical, personal experience of it. 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. We are not sure that Simon was a disciple of Christ; he may have been a friendly spectator; yet one would think the Jews would naturally select a disciple if they could. Although Simon carried Christ's cross, he did not volunteer to do it, but they compelled him. It is the opinion of some commentators that Simon only carried one end of the cross, and not the whole of it. It is not sorrow over Rome, but Jerusalem. If we weep for the sufferings of Christ in the same way as we lament the sufferings of another man, our emotions will be only natural, and may work no good. 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 Church, the bride of Christ, was there conformed to the image of her Lord; she was there, I say, in Simon, bearing the cross, and in the women weeping and lamenting. If not, bestir yourselves at once. 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. who would stand in your place, ye richest, ye merriest, ye most self-righteous sinners who would stand in your place when God shall say, "Awake O sword against the rebel, against the man that rejected me; smite him, and let him feel the smart for ever!" Some of you will! Shall it ever be a hardship to be denied the satisfying draught when he said, "I thirst." How harshly grate the cruel syllables, "Crucify him! We thought sometimes that we loved him as we heard the story of his death, but we did not change our lives for his sake, nor put our trust in him, and so we gave him vinegar to drink. The sinful find our conversation distasteful; in our pursuits the carnal have no interest; things dear to us are dross to worldlings, while things precious to them are contemptible to us. What a cataract of immortal souls dashes downwards to the pit every hour! As Christ went through the streets, a great multitude looked on. O Lord Jesus, we love thee and we worship thee! He must love, it is his nature. When they had mocked him they pulled off the purple garment he had worn, this rough operation would cause much pain. It was a confirmation of the Scripture testimony with regard to man's natural enmity to God. Spurgeon left this earth for his heavenly hope in 1892. It is said that a German regiment was at that time stationed in Judea, and I should not wonder if they were the lineal ancestors of those German theologians of modern times who have mocked the Savior, tampered with revelation, and cast the vile spittle of their philosophy into the face of truth. " And He bowed His head, and gave up His spirit. Nor dost thou set a time for waiting, but instantly thou dost set wide the gate of pearl; thou hast all power in heaven as well as upon earth. Metaphorically understood, thirst is dissatisfaction, the craving of the mind for something which it has not, but which it pines for. 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. Some of you will not be baptized because you think people will say, "He is a professor; how holy he ought to be." 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. I am ashamed of some professed Christians, heartily ashamed of them! 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. And they asked him, What then? The Church must suffer, that the gospel may be spread by her means. He pitied the sufferer, but he thought so little of him that he joined in the voice of scorn. We ought not to forget the Jews. 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." Perhaps they are your children, the objects of your fondest love, with no interest in Christ, without God and without hope in the world! Lloyd-Jones opens John 19:31-37 to answer that very question. 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. You are not, therefore, so poor as he. No blood but that which He has spilt, no groans but those which came from His heart, no suffering but that which was endured by Him, can ever make a recompense for sin. He must love his chosen whom he has once begun to love, for he is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. Next time your fevered lips murmur "I am very thirsty," you may say to yourself, "Those are sacred words, for my Lord spake in that fashion." Let this mind be in you also. "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" John 18:19-40 - Glory on Trial A. But how vast was the disparity! God forbid! Do we not see here the truth of that which was set forth in shadow by the scape-goat? 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. First, we shall look upon them as THE ENSIGN OF HIS TRUE HUMANITY. 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. Once again, as we think of this "I thirst," which proves our Lord's humanity, let us resolve to shun no denials, but rather court them that we may be conformed to his image. Then comes the "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" There are more unlikely things than that you will be dead before next Sunday. Then the goat was led away by a fit man into the wilderness, and it carried away the sins of the people, so that if they were sought for, they could not be found. what a black thought crosses our mind! My Lord is not altogether without his espoused one. There are some who in company hold their tongues, and never say a good word for Christ. "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. This thirst had been on him from the earliest of his earthly days. 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. Our Lord in his death-cries, as in all else, was perfection itself. Even if I may not come at him, yet shall I be full of consolation, for it is heaven to thirst after him, and surely he will never deny a poor soul liberty to admire him, and adore him, and thirst after him." IV. "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.". 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. 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. Know ye not, beloved, for I speak to those who know the Lord, that ye are crucified together with Christ? "Wist ye not," said he, while yet a boy, "that I must be about my Father's business?" I do not think we should seek after needless persecution. Christ was always thirsty to save men, and to be loved of men; and we see a type of his life-long desire when, being weary, he sat thus on the well and said to the woman of Samaria, "Give me to drink." John 19:1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. April 14th, 1878 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). I suppose that the "I thirst" was uttered softly, so that perhaps only one and another who stood near the cross heard it at all; in contrast with the louder cry of "Lama sabachthani" and the triumphant shout of "It is finished": but that soft, expiring sigh, "I thirst," has ended for us the thirst which else, insatiably fierce, had preyed upon us throughout eternity. We used to melt when we heard about his sufferings, but we did not turn from our sins. 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. Those pictures which represent our Lord as wearing the crown of thorns upon the tree have therefore at least some scriptural warrant. Oh! 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. He derived spiritual refreshment from the winning of that women's heart to himself. ye unregenerate men and women, and there are not a few such here now, remember that when God saw Christ in the sinner's place he did not spare him, and when he finds you without Christ, he will not spare you. 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." But what shall be your cry when you shall say, "Good God! Conservative, but not too much depth. I cannot say that it is short and sweet, for, alas, it was bitterness itself to our Lord Jesus; and yet out of its bitterness I trust there will come great sweetness to us. He is indeed "Immanuel, God with us" everywhere. Betrayal and arrest in the garden. 'Tis his cross, and he goes before you as a shepherd goes before his sheep. And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. May the Holy Ghost help us to hear a fourth tuning of the dolorous music, "I thirst." "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." Of the many benefits we have in learning from Paul, a few stand out:1. There was nothing behind in the price, but there is something behind in the manifested power, and we must continue to fill up that measure of revealed power, carrying each one of us the cross with Christ, till the last shame shall have been poured upon his cause, and he shall reign for ever and ever. Let the sympathy of Christ, then, be fully believed in and deeply appreciated, since he said, "I thirst." 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." 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. He loved the Gentile, but still Jerusalem was the city of the Great King. He sipped of the vinegar, and he was refreshed, and no sooner has he thrown off the thirst than he shouted like a conqueror, "It is finished," and quitted the field, covered with renown. Here, as everywhere else, we are constrained to say of our Lord, "Never man spake like this man." "'Twere you my sins, my cruel sins, His chief tormentors were; Each of my grimes became a nail, And unbelief the spear. If you will look, there is the mark of his blood-red shoulder upon that heavy cross. 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. I do not know how far it was from Pilate's house to the Mount of Doom. We do not know what may have been the color of alimony face, but it was most likely black. 29. We read, "The soldiers also mocked him, offering him vinegar." But such is not the truthful estimate of man according to the Scriptures: there man is a fallen creature, with a carnal mind which cannot be reconciled to God; a worse than brutish creature, rendering evil for good, and treating his God with vile ingratitude. July 2nd, 1882 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892) "I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them." John 17:26 . Beloved, let us thirst for the souls of our fellow-men. The world has in former days counted it God's service to kill the saints. 1. 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. Oh! 1089 - The Man Greatly Beloved . 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. John 19:3. sinner, if God hides his face from Christ, how much less will he spare you! Borrowed from his lips it well suiteth my mouth. I invite you to meditate upon the true humanity of our Lord very reverently, and very lovingly. There is the complete justification of the believer, since the work by which he is accepted is fully accomplished. Jesus thirsted, then let us thirst in this dry and thirsty land where no water is. (1-3) Jesus enters the garden, followed by Judas and his troops. Though Simon had to bear the cross for a very little while, it gave him lasting honor. 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. If he was so poor that his garments were stripped from him, and he was hung up upon the tree, penniless and friendless, hungering and thirsting, will you henceforth groan and murmur because you bear the yoke of poverty and want? Now Christ standing in the stead of the ungodly suffers thirst as a type of his enduring the result of sin. Beloved, there is now upon our Master, and there always has been, a thirst after the love of his people. 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. There are no passages in all the public ministry of Jesus so tender as those which have regard to Jerusalem. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh." 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? Even now to a large extent the true Christian is like a Pariah, lower than the lowest caste, in the judgment of some. You may die so, you may die now. The conquest of the appetites, the entire subjugation of the flesh, must be achieved, for before our great Exemplar said, "It is finished," wherein methinks he reached the greatest height of all, he stood as only upon the next lower step to that elevation, and said, "I thirst." We may well remember our faults this day. Mine is adorned with garments crimsoned with his own blood. "I thirst," ay, this is my soul's word with her Lord. 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. 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. He is thirsty still, you see, for our poor love, and surely we cannot deny it to him. Thirst is a common-place misery, such as may happen to peasants or beggars; it is a real pain, and not a thing of a fancy or a nightmare of dreamland. They take matters very gently; they think it unnecessary to be soldiers of the cross. It is so with each one of you? Are you lukewarm? Justice must fly the field lest it be severe to so deserving a being; as for punishment, it must not be whispered to his ears polite. Believing this, let us tenderly feel how very near akin to us our Lord Jesus has become. Can you help feeling how very near Jesus is to us when his lips must be moistened with a sponge, and he must be so dependent upon others as to ask drink from their hand? Dear fountain of delight unknown! The last expiring word in which he commended his spirit to his Father, is the note of acceptance for himself and for us all. 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. May we not be half ashamed of our pleasures when he says, "I thirst"? For the thousands of eyes which shall gaze upon the youthful Prince, I offer the gaze of men and angels. What but for the juice of the vine that he might be refreshed? Think of the millions in this dark world! Oh! Let us magnify and bless our Redeemer's name. One would have said, If he were thirsty he would not tell us, for all the clouds and rains would be glad to refresh his brow, and the brooks and streams would joyously flow at his feet. Now, I am not sure that we ought to blame ourselves for this. As you look at the cross upon his shoulders does it represent your sin? As he commends his spirit into the Father's hand, so does he bring all believers nigh to God, and henceforth we are in the hand of the Father, who is greater than all, and none shall pluck us thence. souls, I do beseech you, by the agonies of Christ, by his wounds and by his blood, do not bring upon yourselves the curse; do not bear in your own persons the awful wrath to come! "Deliver him to the tormentors," was the word of the king in the parable; it shall be fulfilled to you "Depart ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels." (John 19:11) Jesus answered, . Hunger and thirst after righteousness, for you shall be filled. 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