There are some who in company hold their tongues, and never say a good word for Christ. While other religions create what appear to be worship-filled gatherings, they are empty and void of fact. This hint only. Bearing upon his back the sin of all his people, the offering goes without the camp. You are not, therefore, so poor as he. 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." The great agony of being forsaken by God was over, and he felt faint when the strain was withdrawn. In fact, the tendency is to exalt man above God and give him the highest place. He did not spare his Son the stripes. The Redeemer's cry of "I thirst" is a solemn lesson of patience to his afflicted. 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 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. 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. We would fain lift thy name on high in grateful remembrance of the depths to which thou didst descend! 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. 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 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." We may well remember our faults this day. Rutherford says, "Whenever Christ gives us a cross, he cries, 'Halves, my love.'" Alas, man is the slave and the dupe of Satan, and a black-hearted traitor to his God. 'Tis his cross, and he goes before you as a shepherd goes before his sheep. 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. It was a thirst such as none of us have ever known, for not yet has the death dew condensed upon our brows. 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." Secondly, we shall regard these words, "I thirst," as THE TOKEN OF HIS SUFFERING SUBSTITUTION. Let us muse upon the fact that Jesus was conducted without the gates of the city. II. The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. 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." He hath traversed the mournful way before thee, and every footprint thou leavest in the sodden soil is stamped side by side with his footmarks. But ye ask me where is the spouse, the king's daughter fair and beautiful? "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. 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. It began with the mouth of appetite, when it was sinfully gratified, and it ends when a kindred appetite is graciously denied. As not a bone of him shall be broken, so not a word shall be lost. Come let us pour out full flagons, until his joy is fulfilled in 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. Commentary on John 19:31-37 (Read John 19:31-37) A trial was made whether Jesus was dead. What was he looking for from his vineyard and its winepress? Alas, my brethren, I cannot say much on the score of man's cruelty to our Lord without touching myself and you. III. John 19:4-5. 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? The flood of his grief has passed the high-water mark, and began to be assuaged. He saith, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock." 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. And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe. As these seven sayings were so faithfully recorded, we do not wonder that they have frequently been the subject of devout meditation. It does not often happen that five or six thousand people meet together twice; it never does, I suppose; the scythe of death must cut some of you down before my voice shall warn you again! May God deliver you! My heart shall not be content till he is all in all to me, and I am altogether lost in him. As Spurgeon puts it "Faith is described as 'receiving' Jesus. 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. 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 multitude there was a sparse sprinkling of tender-hearted women, probably those who had been healed, or whose children had been blessed by him. But how vast was the disparity! For the thousands of eyes which shall gaze upon the youthful Prince, I offer the gaze of men and angels. No man dare call him friend now, or whisper a word of comfort to him. 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." John preached a sacrificial Saviour, a sin-bearing Saviour, a sin-atoning Saviour. Separately or in connection our Master's words overflow with instruction to thoughtful minds: but of all save one I must say, "Of which we cannot now speak particularly." "I thirst," ay, this is my soul's word with her Lord. See, it has been blackened with bruises, and stained with the shameful spittle of them that derided him. Trust in the Son of God and you shall never die. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it. "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." The last of his last words is also taken from the Scriptures, and shows where his mind was feeding. Add to Cart. This thirst had been on him from the earliest of his earthly days. 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." Borrowed from his lips it well suiteth my mouth. How near akin the thirsty Saviour is to us; let us love him more and more. I invite your attention to CHRIST AS LED FORTH. Oh! There is bread upon your table to-day, and there will be at least a cup of cold water to refresh you. 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. It is the opinion of some commentators that Simon only carried one end of the cross, and not the whole of it. 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. Oh! . They force him without the walls, and are not satisfied till they have rid themselves of his obnoxious presence. why hast thou forsaken me?" 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. I have now a third picture to present to you CHRIST AND HIS MOURNERS. Did we not do so years ago before we knew him? The platted crown of thorns, the purple robe, the reed with which they smote him, and the spittle with which they disfigured him, all these marked the contempt in which they held the King of the Jews. and they smote him with their hands. 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. So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. These are silken days, and religion fights not so stern a battle. Romanists of all ages have wrought upon the feelings of the people in this manner, and to a degree the attempt is commendable, but if it shall all end in tears of pity, no good is done. 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. 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!" And said, Hail, King of the Jews! The lictors executed their cruel office upon his shoulders with their rods and scourges, until the stripes had reached the full number. I do not know how far it was from Pilate's house to the Mount of Doom. 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 is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. Nay more; he is banished from their society, as if he were a leper whose breath would be infectious whose presence would scatter plague. There is one way by which you can tell whether he carried your sin or not. 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. Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was born in Essex, England. "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani," what an awful shriek! If not, bestir yourselves at once. For his sake we may rejoice in self-denials, and accept Christ and a crust as all we desire between here and heaven. 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. Weep not for him, but for these. 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. away with him." How great the love which led him to such a condescension as this! 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. 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. Oh! 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. It was the common place of death. Lloyd-Jones opens John 19:31-37 to answer that very question. We all know that a different dress will often raise a doubt about the identity of an individual; but lo! He also knew well the terrible joy that comes only through suffering as he lived quite afflicted (both by illness and slander). 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." You have blessed company; your path is marked with footprints of your Lord. Take up your cross daily and follow him. "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Have you repented of sin? Well, then, what means this cry, "I thirst," but this, that we should thirst too? Mark then, Christian, Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. 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. It is the empty cup placed under the flowing stream; the penniless hand held out for heavenly alms." . April 14th, 1878 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). Will your Prince be sumptuously arrayed? 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. The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God. It is not likely that we shall be able to worship with their worship. He was innocent, and yet he thirsted; shall we marvel if guilty ones are now and then chastened? 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. John Chapter 19 - In-depth, verse-by-verse commentary and Bible study of John chapter 19 in plain English. IV. The cup of which thou art made to drink, though it be very bitter, bears the mark of his lips about its brim. (6) John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the sour wine, He said, " It is finished! Today! I. Remember, dear friends, that what Christ suffered for us, these unregenerate ones must suffer for themselves, except they put their trust in Christ. 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. The Christian faith and motives for Christian worship are based on the certainty of facts. Fix your hearts upon some unsaved one, and thirst until he is saved. To-day I invite your attention to another Prince, marching in another fashion through his metropolis. Shall it ever be a hardship to be denied the satisfying draught when he said, "I thirst." A few times the sun will go up and down the hill; a few more moons will wax and wane, and then we shall receive the glory. Now, I am not sure that we ought to blame ourselves for this. 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. The last expiring word in which he commended his spirit to his Father, is the note of acceptance for himself and for us all. How has it been with you? 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. The Geneva Series of Commentaries include historic commentaries on biblical books written by some of the great theologians in the history of the church. O Lord Jesus, we love thee and we worship thee! 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. There have been times, and the days may come again, when faithfulness to Christ has entailed exclusion from what is called "society." 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." Mark you, the ransom of men was all paid by Christ; that was redemption by price. And well they may; the son of such noble parents deserves a nation's love. Jesus was proved to be really man, because he suffered the pains which belong to manhood. Brother, thirst I pray you to have your workpeople saved. 1089 - The Man Greatly Beloved . 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. Oh! He derived spiritual refreshment from the winning of that women's heart to himself. "Women, behold thy son!" Some of you will not be baptized because you think people will say, "He is a professor; how holy he ought to be." Our religion is our glory; the Cross of Christ is our honor, and, while not ostentatiously parading it, as the Pharisees do, we ought never to be so cowardly as to conceal it. 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. "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do" is the first. Either Christ must die for me, or else I must die for myself the second death; if he did not carry the curse for me, then on me must it rest for ever and ever. Let us now gaze for awhile upon CHRIST CARRYING HIS CROSS. Therefore while he thirsts give him to drink this day. We do not know what may have been the color of alimony face, but it was most likely black. I tell you, sirs, that yonder malefactor carried his cross and died on it; and you will carry your sorrows, and be damned with them, except you repent. He said, "I thirst," in order that one might bring him drink, even as you have wished to have a cooling draught handed to you when you could not help yourself. 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. With "I thirst" the evil is destroyed and receives its expiation. We see in Simon's carrying the cross a picture of what the Church is to do throughout all generations. 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'? Oh! 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. (7) Luke 23:46 And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, "Father, INTO THY HANDS I COMMIT MY SPIRIT. He pitied the sufferer, but he thought so little of him that he joined in the voice of scorn. Here is the safety of the believer in the hour of his departure, and his instant admission into the presence of his Lord. John and Herod 1549 - Good News for Thirsty Souls 1550 - The Unspeakable Gift 1551 - Today! Alas poor African, thou hast been compelled to carry the cross even until now. Here you see how the mortal flesh had to share in the agony of the inward spirit. I have already told you that such was our Lord's mystical desire; let it be ours also. 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. Now Christ standing in the stead of the ungodly suffers thirst as a type of his enduring the result of sin. The "I thirst" was the bearing of the last pang; what if I say it was the expression of the fact that his pangs had at last begun to cease, and their fury had spent itself, and left him able to note his lessor pains? You see there the multitude are leading him forth from the temple. 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. 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. 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. ( John 19:1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. Jesus was deserted of God; and if he, who was only imputedly a sinner, was deserted, how much more shall you be? Pilate, as we reminded you, scourged our Savior according to the common custom of Roman courts. Beeke, Joel R. & Thompson, Nick. Nor is this all. 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. There can be no shadow of doubt but that our Lord was really crucified, and no one substituted for him. When they had mocked him they pulled off the purple garment he had worn, this rough operation would cause much pain. 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. The arrow which has lately pierced thee, my brother, was first stained with his blood. 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. The words, "I thirst," are a common voice in death chambers. 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." He would have sacrificed himself to save his countrymen, so heartily did he desire their eternal welfare. According to the sacred canticle of love, in the fifth chapter of the Song of Songs, we learn that when he drank in those olden times it was in the garden of his church that he was refreshed. 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. Metaphorically understood, thirst is dissatisfaction, the craving of the mind for something which it has not, but which it pines for. Next Saturday all eyes will be fixed on a great Prince who shall ride through our streets with his Royal Bride. What but for the juice of the vine that he might be refreshed? They place the cross upon Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country. 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. The mind of man is like the daughters of the horseleech, which cry for ever, "Give, give." I am not the One anointed of God to save mankind. John 1:21. 1. 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. 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." Holy Scripture remains the basis of our faith, established by every word and act of our Redeemer. All nations gathered about my Lord, both great and mean men clustered around his person. 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. 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. 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." 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. It came from the parched lips of the Divine Victim towards the close of his agony, and after the darkness which endured from the sixth to the ninth hour. 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. 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. Cheerfully accept this burden, ye servants of the Lord. 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. If we be true to our Master we shall soon lose the friendship of the world. It showed that he had laid down his life of himself. And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou ? you that are ashamed of Christ, how can you read that text, "He that is ashamed of me, and of my words, of him will I be ashamed when I come in the glory of my Father, and all my holy angels with me." Cover it with a cloak? 1. 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. He is indeed "Immanuel, God with us" everywhere. 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 voice of sympathy prevailed over the voice of scorn. Have we not often given him vinegar to drink? 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." How harshly grate the cruel syllables, "Crucify him! 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." There are many other ways in which these words might be read, and they would be found to be all full of instruction. "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." And what makes him love us so? "After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst." John 19:1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. Such a greeting had the Lord of glory, but alas, it was not the shout of welcome, but the yell of "Away with him! "To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise." Coming fresh from the country, not knowing what was going on, he joined with the mob, and they made him carry the cross. Are you lukewarm? We will now take the text in a third way, and may the Spirit of God instruct us once again. Commentators like Thomas Manton and John Calvin are represented in this series. Let me show what I think he meant. I show unto you a more excellent way. 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. 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. 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