It began with the mouth of appetite, when it was sinfully gratified, and it ends when a kindred appetite is graciously denied. And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe. It is so with each one of you? They place the cross upon Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country. John 19:16 . 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. It was one of Death's castles; here he stored his gloomiest trophies; he was the grim lord of that stronghold. We may well remember our faults this day. He cried, ere he bowed the head which he had held erect amid all his conflict, as one who never yielded, "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit." 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. The whole universe shall hiss you; angels shall be ashamed of you; your own friends, yes, your sainted mother, shall say "Amen" to your condemnation; and those who loved you best shall sit as assessors with Christ to judge you and condemn you! Hast thou laid thy hand upon his head, confessed thy sin, and trusted in him? This thirst had been on him from the earliest of his earthly days. Have you repented of sin? 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." A carnal appetite of the body, the satisfaction of the desire for food, first brought us down under the first Adam, and now the pang of thirst, the denial of what the body craved for, restores us to our place. He would have sacrificed himself to save his countrymen, so heartily did he desire their eternal welfare. The Holy Spirit took special care that each of the sacred utterances should be fittingly recorded. 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. In the Lord of Hosts, who shows his power in the sufferings of Christ and of his Church. So numerous has the family of man now become, that there is a death every second; and when we know how very smell a proportion of the human race have even nominally received the cross and there is none other name given under heaven among men whereby we must be saved oh! Our Lord Jesus came forth, willing to be exposed to their scorn. crucify him!" 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? He calls for that: will you not give it to 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. But how vast was the disparity! We should love the cross, and count it very dear, because it works out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. IV. Well, then, what means this cry, "I thirst," but this, that we should thirst too? As for yourselves, thirst after perfection. There can be no shadow of doubt but that our Lord was really crucified, and no one substituted for him. Coming fresh from the country, not knowing what was going on, he joined with the mob, and they made him carry the cross. As Christ went through the streets, a great multitude looked on. 1. Now we see Jesus brought before the priests and rulers, who pronounce him guilty; God himself imputes our sins to him; he was made sin for us; and, as the substitute for our guilt, bearing our sin upon his shoulders for that cross was a sort of representation in wood of our guilt and doom we see the great Scape-goat led away by the appointed officers of justice. This hint only. Scripture provides a wealth . 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. "Weep for yourselves," says Christ, "rather than for me." It is a blow at the fable of purgatory which strikes it to the heart. 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." 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. London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. 'Tis his cross, and he goes before you as a shepherd goes before his sheep. Therefore while he thirsts give him to drink this day. For his sake we may rejoice in self-denials, and accept Christ and a crust as all we desire between here and heaven. Shall carnal appetites be indulged and bodies pampered when Jesus cried :I thirst"? May the Holy Spirit often lead us to glean therein. 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. 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. You have been ill, and you have been parched with fever as he was, and then you too have gasped out "I thirst." Beloved, let us thirst for the souls of our fellow-men. John 19:3. The Geneva Series of Commentaries include historic commentaries on biblical books written by some of the great theologians in the history of the church. C.H. The last word but one, "It is finished." You do suffer. " And having said this, He breathed His last. Oh! How great the love which led him to such a condescension as this! 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. Save your tears for them; Christ asks them not in sympathy for himself. What was he looking for from his vineyard and its winepress? Though Simon had to bear the cross for a very little while, it gave him lasting honor. And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and they put on Him a purple robe. There is one way by which you can tell whether he carried your sin or not. Oh! 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. 1. ", When a brother makes confession of his transgressions, when on his knees before God he humbles himself with many tears, I am sure the Lord thinks far more of the tears of repentance than he would do of the mere drops of human sympathy. No, no; we must not make a cross of our own. It is not likely that we shall be able to worship with their worship. 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. We gave him our tears and then grieved him with our sins. 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. John preached a sacrificial Saviour, a sin-bearing Saviour, a sin-atoning Saviour. 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 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. John 1 19-51 Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 1:19-51 John 1:19. Do not let us forget the infinite distance between the Lord of glory on his throne and the Crucified dried up with thirst. There are no passages in all the public ministry of Jesus so tender as those which have regard to Jerusalem. Lectures to My Students - Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1889 Lessons from the Apostle Paul's Prayers - Charles Spurgeon 2018-02-19 Why study and pray the prayers of the Apostle Paul? 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. John 19 Commentary John chapter 19 commentary Bible study. It was a confirmation of the Scripture testimony with regard to man's natural enmity to God. Brother, thirst to have your children save. While other religions create what appear to be worship-filled gatherings, they are empty and void of fact. 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. He had no sooner said "I thirst," and sipped the vinegar, than he shouted, "It is finished"; and all was over: the battle was fought and the victory won for ever, and our great Deliverer's thirst was the sign of his having smitten the last foe. 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. 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. The spear broke up the very fountains of life; no human body could survive such a wound. "I thirst, but not as once I did, The vain delights of earth to share; Thy wounds, Emmanuel, all forbid That I should seek my pleasures there. 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? 1089 - The Man Greatly Beloved . Can they be compared to generous wine? I like to think of our Lord's saying, "It is finished," directly after he had exclaimed, "I thirst"; for these two voices come so naturally together. It showed that he had laid down his life of himself. But what shall be your cry when you shall say, "Good God! The last of his last words is also taken from the Scriptures, and shows where his mind was feeding. 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 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. 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. 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." Oh! Oh! Rutherford used words somewhat to this effect, "I thirst for my Lord and this is joy; a joy which no man taketh from me. 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. I am ashamed of some professed Christians, heartily ashamed of them! April 14th, 1878 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). 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. A second mode of treating these seven cries is to view them as setting forth the person and offices of our Lord who uttered them. 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. Hunger and thirst after righteousness, for you shall be filled. And well they may; the son of such noble parents deserves a nation's love. We shall perhaps know it in our measure in our dying hour, but not yet, nor ever so terribly as he did. Then came, "Women, behold thy son!" We know from experience that the present effect of sin in every man who indulges in it is thirst of soul. (John 19:11) Jesus answered, . Our Lord in his death-cries, as in all else, was perfection itself. _Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. That man is a fool and deserves no pity, who purposely excites the disgust of other people. Yet, dear friends, to some eyes there will be more attraction in the procession of sorrow, of shame, and of blood, than in you display of grandeur and joy. 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." 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. 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. Hail, ye despised children of the sun, ye follow first after the King in the march of woe. The Christian faith and motives for Christian worship are based on the certainty of facts. In the multitude there was a sparse sprinkling of tender-hearted women, probably those who had been healed, or whose children had been blessed by him. You and I have nothing else to preach. Such a greeting had the Lord of glory, but alas, it was not the shout of welcome, but the yell of "Away with him! what a black thought crosses our mind! Volume 19, Sermons 1089-1149 (1873) Hide. You must consider Jesus, and not yourself; turn your eye to Christ, the great substitute for sinners, but never dream of trusting in yourselves. For a biblical, reformed, and historic collection of commentaries, the Geneva Series is unsurpassed. Today! "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" 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! 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. 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. Alas poor African, thou hast been compelled to carry the cross even until now. He believed, as a Roman in gods many. Rutherford says, "Whenever Christ gives us a cross, he cries, 'Halves, my love.'" John Chapter 19 - In-depth, verse-by-verse commentary and Bible study of John chapter 19 in plain English. good God! 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. ye Christian men, who dream of trimming your sails to the wind, who seek to win the world's favor, I do beseech you cease from a course so perilous. Amen. "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani," what an awful shriek! Do not let the picture vanish till you have satisfied yourselves once for all that Christ was here the substitute for you. 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. sinner, if God hides his face from Christ, how much less will he spare you! 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. I do not know how far it was from Pilate's house to the Mount of Doom. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. "I thirst," ay, this is my soul's word with her Lord. Simon had to carry the cross but for a very little time, yet his name is in this Book for ever, and we may envy him his honor. I invite you to meditate upon the true humanity of our Lord very reverently, and very lovingly. 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. Then I will thirst with him and not complain, I will suffer with him and not murmur." 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. We are to reckon upon all this, and should the worst befal us, it is to be no strange thing to us. A refined and heavenly appetite, a craving for our Lord. Jesus was deserted of God; and if he, who was only imputedly a sinner, was deserted, how much more shall you be? 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." We ought not to forget the Jews. 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." Jesus said, "I thirst," and this is the complaint of a man. 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." 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? Call to mind his complaint in the fifth chapter of Isaiah, "Now will I sing to my well beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. 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. I have now a third picture to present to you CHRIST AND HIS MOURNERS. The soldiery mocked and insulted him in every way that cruelty and scorn could devise. 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." I. He saith, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock." 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. You carry the cross after him. Christians, will you refuse to be cross-bearers for Christ? Alas, man is the slave and the dupe of Satan, and a black-hearted traitor to his God. 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." Do not forget, also, that you bear this cross in partnership. 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. Mine is adorned with garments crimsoned with his own blood. London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. It is the opinion of some commentators that Simon only carried one end of the cross, and not the whole of it. Charles Haddon Spurgeon December 1, 1861 Scripture: John 19:30 From: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 7 It is Finished! There is a fulness of meaning in each utterance which no man shall be able fully to bring forth, and when combined they make up a vast deep of thought, which no human line can fathom. It is not sorrow over Rome, but Jerusalem. 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. 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. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. This is a kind of sweet whereof if a man hath much he must have more, and when he hath more he is under a still greater necessity to receive more, and so on, his appetite for ever growing by that which it feeds upon, till he is filled with all the fulness of God. The more manifestly there shall be a great gulf between the Church and the world, the better shall it be for both; the better for the world, for it shall be thereby warned; the better for the Church, for it shall be thereby preserved. 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. I claim for the procession of my Lord an interest superior to the pageant you are now so anxiously expecting. Did not the prophecies say that man would give to his incarnate God gall to eat and vinegar to drink? 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!" Borrowed from his lips it well suiteth my mouth. are they not more like sharp vinegar? But my Prince is hated without a cause. They are created in the minds of men. He is indeed "Immanuel, God with us" everywhere. Remember, dear friends, that what Christ suffered for us, these unregenerate ones must suffer for themselves, except they put their trust in Christ. Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 19 John 19:1-16 John 19:1. 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." Some of you will! Acts 19 Acts 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. 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. John 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. It was the common place of death. It was a thirst such as none of us have ever known, for not yet has the death dew condensed upon our brows. Did I not describe last Sabbath the knotted scourges which fell upon the Saviours back? 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. The high places of earth's worship and honor are not for us. 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