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. There are more unlikely things than that you will be dead before next Sunday. 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. 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." Beware of rendering him homage and dishonouring his name at the same time. What whips of steel for you, what knots of burning wire for you, when conscience shall smite you, when the law shall scourge you with its ten-thonged whip! 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? We are to reckon upon all this, and should the worst befal us, it is to be no strange thing to us. 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. away with him." 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. 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. 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. Well might the Master say, "Weep not for me, but for yourselves." The arrow which has lately pierced thee, my brother, was first stained with his blood. 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." John 19:4-5. If not, may that picture of Christ fainting in the streets lead you to do so this morning. Think, dear friends, there are some in this congregation who as yet have no interest in Jesu's blood, some sitting next to you, your nearest friends who, if they were now to close their eyes in death, would open them in hell! (7) Luke 23:46 And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, "Father, INTO THY HANDS I COMMIT MY SPIRIT. The soldiery mocked and insulted him in every way that cruelty and scorn could devise. 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." Hail, everlasting King in heaven, thou dost admit to thy paradise whomsoever thou wilt! He believed, as a Roman in gods many. Oh! It is not sorrow over Rome, but Jerusalem. 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. ", 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. He was innocent, and yet he thirsted; shall we marvel if guilty ones are now and then chastened? London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. II. But my Prince is hated without a cause. 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." The most careless eye discerns it. He is thirsty still, you see, for our poor love, and surely we cannot deny it to him. When our Lord cried, "Eloi, Eloi," and afterwards said, "I thirst," the persons around the cross said, "Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him," mocking him; and, according to Mark, he who gave the vinegar uttered much the same words. After our Lord Jesus Christ had been formally condemned by Pilate, our text tells us he was led away. 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. The Church must suffer, that the gospel may be spread by her means. Will ye raise a clamor of tumultuous shouting? These are awful words, but they are not mine; they are the very words of God in Scripture. There are no passages in all the public ministry of Jesus so tender as those which have regard to Jerusalem. It is so with each one of you? 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 sharpness of that sentence no exposition can fully disclose to us: it is keen as the very edge and point of the sword which pierced his heart. He poureth out the streams that run among the hills, the torrents which rush adown the mountains, and the flowing rivers which enrich the plains. 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. John 19:1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. 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. "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. Will your Prince be sumptuously arrayed? Beloved, let us thirst for the souls of our fellow-men. 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. So he was thirsting then. I show unto you a more excellent way. "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." Today! Now, I am not sure that we ought to blame ourselves for this. C.H. He must love, it is his nature. 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. (1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. April 14th, 1878 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). More solemn still is the reflection that according to our Lord's own teaching, thirst will also be the eternal result of sin, for he says concerning the rich glutton, "In hell he lift up his eyes, being in torment," and his prayer, which was denied him, was, "Father Abraham, send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame." 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? (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. Such a greeting had the Lord of glory, but alas, it was not the shout of welcome, but the yell of "Away with him! Great and worshipful being that he is, truth is to be altered for him, the gospel is to be modulated to suit the tone of his various generations, and all the arrangements of the universe are to be rendered subservient to his interests. Scripture provides a wealth . 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. good God! These are silken days, and religion fights not so stern a battle. John 18:19-40 - Glory on Trial A. Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was born in Essex, England. You have been ill, and you have been parched with fever as he was, and then you too have gasped out "I thirst." 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. How harshly grate the cruel syllables, "Crucify him! 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. 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. We may therefore come before him, with all the rest of our race, when God subdues them to repentance by his love, and look on him whom we have pierced, and mourn for him as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. How truly man he is; he is, indeed, "bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh," for he bears our infirmities. 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 "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. John Chapter 19 - In-depth, verse-by-verse commentary and Bible study of John chapter 19 in plain English. Those pictures which represent our Lord as wearing the crown of thorns upon the tree have therefore at least some scriptural warrant. No sufferings of ours have anything to do with the atonement of sin. 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. Save your tears for them; Christ asks them not in sympathy for himself. "I reckon that these light afflictions, which are but for a moment, are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us." If we be true to our Master we shall soon lose the friendship of the world. "His way was much rougher and darker than mine; Did Christ, my Lord, suffer, and shall I repine?". May the Holy Spirit often lead us to glean therein. 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! One word: transformation. Our Lord in his death-cries, as in all else, was perfection itself. Acts 19 Acts 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. High in the air ye bid your banners wave about the heir of England's throne, but how shall ye rival the banner of the sacred cross, that day for the first time borne among the sons of men. When they had mocked him they pulled off the purple garment he had worn, this rough operation would cause much pain. As Spurgeon puts it "Faith is described as 'receiving' Jesus. It began with the mouth of appetite, when it was sinfully gratified, and it ends when a kindred appetite is graciously denied. 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. And now, brethren, our blessed Lord has at this time a thirst for communion with each one of you who are his people, not because you can do him good, but because he can do you good. 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. We can never forget the painful scenes of which we have been witness, when we have watched the dissolving of the human frame. John 19 Commentary John chapter 19 commentary Bible study. "And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes," vinegar, and not wine; sourness, and not sweetness. 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. Secondly, we shall regard these words, "I thirst," as THE TOKEN OF HIS SUFFERING SUBSTITUTION. 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! 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. We know from experience that the present effect of sin in every man who indulges in it is thirst of soul. Brother, thirst I pray you to have your workpeople saved. sinner, if God hides his face from Christ, how much less will he spare you! Inductive Bible study on John 19. 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. It is not likely that we shall be able to worship with their worship. From the sky the angels viewed him with wonder and amazement; the spirits of the just looked from the windows of heaven upon the scene, yea, the great God and Father watched each movement of his suffering Son. 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." O my hearers, beware of praising Jesus and denying his atoning sacrifice. Christians, will you refuse to be cross-bearers for Christ? You may die so, you may die now. 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." John 19:3. Mine is adorned with garments crimsoned with his own blood. You have, then, no true sympathy for Christ if you have not an earnest sympathy with those who would win souls for Christ. 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. Take up your cross, and go without the camp, following your Lord, even until death. 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. 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. Nor is this all. May the Holy Ghost help us to hear a fourth tuning of the dolorous music, "I thirst." Alas, man is the slave and the dupe of Satan, and a black-hearted traitor to his God. Hark how their loud voices demand that he should be hastened to execution! 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. Includes cross references, questions, verse by verse commentary, outline, and applications on John chapter 19 for small groups. 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. He would have sacrificed himself to save his countrymen, so heartily did he desire their eternal welfare. If not, bestir yourselves at once. why hast thou forsaken me?" Fathers and confessors, preachers and divines have delighted to dwell upon every syllable of these matchless cries. Do not let us forget the infinite distance between the Lord of glory on his throne and the Crucified dried up with thirst. 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. Then came, "Women, behold thy son!" 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. 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. All this is a blessed clog upon us, and a means of keeping us more near the Lord. This hint only. 29. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it. Then they said, "Hail, King of the Jews!" And they struck Him with their hands. 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. "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." 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. I invite you to meditate upon the true humanity of our Lord very reverently, and very lovingly. Nay more; he is banished from their society, as if he were a leper whose breath would be infectious whose presence would scatter plague. We shall by the assistance of the Holy Spirit try to regard these words of our Saviour in a five-fold light. 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. 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. Last Sunday the remark was made to me "If the story of the sufferings of Christ had been told of any other man, all the congregation would have been in tears." Shall the servant be above his Master, or the disciple above his Lord? Today! This is man's treatment of his Saviour. Our first parents plucked forbidden fruit, and by eating slew the race. 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. We shall perhaps know it in our measure in our dying hour, but not yet, nor ever so terribly as he did. He died in less time than persons crucified commonly did. Beeke, Joel R. & Thompson, Nick. Let all your love be his. what a black thought crosses our mind! 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. Complain not, then. It is calculated that one soul passes from time into eternity every time the clock ticks! Let each of us say "Tis all my business here below To cry, Behold the Lamb!" John 1:30-31. And what makes him love us so? We used to melt when we heard about his sufferings, but we did not turn from our sins. The utterance of "I thirst" brought out A TYPE OF MAN'S TREATMENT OF HIS LORD. Hast thou laid thy hand upon his head, confessed thy sin, and trusted in him? 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. It was a thirst such as none of us have ever known, for not yet has the death dew condensed upon our brows. Pilate, as we reminded you, scourged our Savior according to the common custom of Roman courts. The voice of sympathy prevailed over the voice of scorn. This thirst had been on him from the earliest of his earthly days. 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." 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. 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." Read Joo 15:7 bible commentary from Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible by Charles Haddon Spurgeon FREE on BiblePortal.com First, we shall look upon them as THE ENSIGN OF HIS TRUE HUMANITY. 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. John preached a sacrificial Saviour, a sin-bearing Saviour, a sin-atoning Saviour. The Holy Spirit took special care that each of the sacred utterances should be fittingly recorded. But ye ask me where is the spouse, the king's daughter fair and beautiful? You are not, therefore, so poor as he. 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. 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. Let this mind be in you also. 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. and they smote him with their hands. Think of that! London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. These solemn sentences have shone like the seven golden candlesticks or the seven stars of the Apocalypse, and have lighted multitudes of men to him who spake them. They are these Weep not because the Savior bled, but because your sins made him bleed. 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. Trust in the Son of God and you shall never die. "I thirst" meant that his heart was thirsting to save men. He is not allowed to worship with them. 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. Here, as everywhere else, we are constrained to say of our Lord, "Never man spake like this man." Largest collection of Spurgeon resources online, including a complete 63 volume set of sermons, audio sermons, books, and quotes. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. This cross was a ponderous machine; not so heavy, perhaps, as some pictures would represent it, but still no light burden to a man whose shoulders were raw with the lashes of the Roman scourge. 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. This added to his shame; but, methinks, in this, too, he draws the nearer to us, "He was numbered with the transgressors, and bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors." What but for the juice of the vine that he might be refreshed? It showed that he had laid down his life of himself. I invite your attention to CHRIST AS LED FORTH. 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. While other religions create what appear to be worship-filled gatherings, they are empty and void of fact. 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. The sufferings of Christ should make us weep over those who have brought that blood upon their heads. For the thousands of eyes which shall gaze upon the youthful Prince, I offer the gaze of men and angels. To-day I invite your attention to another Prince, marching in another fashion through his metropolis. Holy Scripture remains the basis of our faith, established by every word and act of our Redeemer. 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. This was intended at once to proclaim his guilt and intimate his doom. And well they may; the son of such noble parents deserves a nation's love. The high places of earth's worship and honor are not for us. 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. O Lord Jesus, we love thee and we worship thee! Conservative, but not too much depth. "I thirst," is his human body tormented by grievous pain. Oh! 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. If you will look, there is the mark of his blood-red shoulder upon that heavy cross. Commentary on John 19:31-37 (Read John 19:31-37) A trial was made whether Jesus was dead. 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." Here is the safety of the believer in the hour of his departure, and his instant admission into the presence of his Lord. As Christ went through the streets, a great multitude looked on. Your Prince is surrounded by a multitude of friends; hark how they joyously welcome him! There are some who in company hold their tongues, and never say a good word for Christ. No man dare call him friend now, or whisper a word of comfort to him. For his sake we may rejoice in self-denials, and accept Christ and a crust as all we desire between here and heaven. 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