. The voice of sympathy prevailed over the voice of scorn. 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. 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. Jesus paused, and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me; but weep for yourselves and for your children." 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. 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. Then comes the "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" 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." No, no; we must not make a cross of our own. Mine is adorned with garments crimsoned with his own blood. Hail, everlasting King in heaven, thou dost admit to thy paradise whomsoever thou wilt! 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." It is not sorrow over Rome, but Jerusalem. 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. Sister, thirst for the salvation of your class, thirst for the redemption of your family, thirst for the conversion of your husband. All nations gathered about my Lord, both great and mean men clustered around his person. 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. Thirst is no royal grief, but an evil of universal manhood; Jesus is brother to the poorest and most humble of our race. Do not let us forget the infinite distance between the Lord of glory on his throne and the Crucified dried up with thirst. Then came, "Women, behold thy son!" 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. It was one of Death's castles; here he stored his gloomiest trophies; he was the grim lord of that stronghold. 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. Do you not remember how that thirst of his was strong in the old days of the prophet? "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. Jesus took the wrath; Jesus carried the sin; and now all that you endure is but for his sake, that you may be conformed unto his image, and may aid in gathering his people into his family. 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. His most fruitful years of ministry were at the New Park Street and later the Metropolitan Tabernacle pulpit in London. I believe there was a tenderness in Christ's heart to the Jew of a special character. Hark how their loud voices demand that he should be hastened to execution! " And He bowed His head, and gave up His spirit. II. Save your tears for them; Christ asks them not in sympathy for himself. "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. Remember how Paul said, "I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. 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. Have we not often given him vinegar to drink? We gave him our tears and then grieved him with our sins. But my Prince is hated without a cause. What learn we here as we see Christ led forth? Even when man compassionates the sufferings of Christ, and man would have ceased to be human if he did not, still he scorns him; the very cup which man gives to Jesus is at once scorn and pity, for "the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel." We do not thirst after the old manner wherein we were bitterly afflicted, for he hath said, "He that drinketh of this water shall never thirst:" but now we covet a new thirst. 'Tis his cross, and he goes before you as a shepherd goes before his sheep. The woes which broke the Savior's heart must crush theirs. 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. Oh! 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? Inductive Bible study on John 19. The most careless eye discerns it. Let the sympathy of Christ, then, be fully believed in and deeply appreciated, since he said, "I thirst." 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. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. Our Lord Jesus came forth, willing to be exposed to their scorn. 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!" 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. 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. 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 "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Did not the prophecies say that man would give to his incarnate God gall to eat and vinegar to drink? Are you so frozen at heart that not a cup of cold water can be melted for Jesus? Let this mind be in you also. But what shall be your cry when you shall say, "Good God! 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. John 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. Is not this a fertile field of thought? May we not despise our loaded table while he is neglected? 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 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. (7) Luke 23:46 And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, "Father, INTO THY HANDS I COMMIT MY SPIRIT. Shall it ever be a hardship to be denied the satisfying draught when he said, "I thirst." It was a confirmation of the Scripture testimony with regard to man's natural enmity to God. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God. 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. 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. Here we behold his human soul in anguish, his inmost heart overwhelmed by the withdrawing of Jehovah's face, and made to cry out as if in perplexity and amazement. I do not think we should seek after needless persecution. Nor is this all. It was a thirst such as none of us have ever known, for not yet has the death dew condensed upon our brows. January 1, 1970 A Plain Answer to an Important Enquiry "Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent." John vi. Jesus, being a man, escaped none of the ills which are allotted to man in death. 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. Then they said, "Hail, King of the Jews!" And they struck Him with their hands. Nay more; he is banished from their society, as if he were a leper whose breath would be infectious whose presence would scatter plague. 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. 1 So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. 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. He died in less time than persons crucified commonly did. The sufferings of Christ should make us weep over those who have brought that blood upon their heads. Say not that the comparison is strained, for in a moment I will withdraw it and present the contrast. V. Lastly, the cry of "I thirst" is to us THE PATTERN OF OUR DEATH WITH HIM. I show unto you a more excellent way. 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." Fathers and confessors, preachers and divines have delighted to dwell upon every syllable of these matchless cries. Nor does the grief end here, for have not the best works we have ever done, and the best feelings we ever felt, and the best prayers we have ever offered, been tart and sour with sin? 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. 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. Next Saturday all eyes will be fixed on a great Prince who shall ride through our streets with his Royal Bride. 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. III. IV. John 19 Commentary John chapter 19 commentary Bible study. Such a greeting had the Lord of glory, but alas, it was not the shout of welcome, but the yell of "Away with him! John 1 19-51 Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 1:19-51 John 1:19. The utterance of "I thirst" brought out A TYPE OF MAN'S TREATMENT OF HIS LORD. 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. Even now to a large extent the true Christian is like a Pariah, lower than the lowest caste, in the judgment of some. ( John 19:1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. The world has in former days counted it God's service to kill the saints. Read Joo 15:7 bible commentary from Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible by Charles Haddon Spurgeon FREE on BiblePortal.com III. 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." Dear friends, we must remember that, although no one died on the cross with Christ, for atonement must be executed by a solitary Savior, yet another person did carry the cross for Christ; for this world, while redeemed by price by Christ, and by Christ alone, is to be redeemed by divine power manifested in the sufferings and labors of the saints as well as those of Christ. "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." And well they may; the son of such noble parents deserves a nation's love. You carry the cross after him. Home; Origin; Birth; John; Acts; About; JOHN 19 COMMENTARY . These are silken days, and religion fights not so stern a battle. There are many other ways in which these words might be read, and they would be found to be all full of instruction. Let us muse upon the fact that Jesus was conducted without the gates of the city. Behold, my King is not without his crown alas, a crown of thorns set with ruby drops of blood! March 1st, 1863 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). 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. V. I close with THE SAVIOR'S WARNING QUESTION "If they do these things in the green tree, what will they do in the dry?". Rutherford says, "Whenever Christ gives us a cross, he cries, 'Halves, my love.'" My well beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: and he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein." Simon was an African; he came from Cyrene. away with him." ", 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. We can never forget the painful scenes of which we have been witness, when we have watched the dissolving of the human frame. 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. John Chapter 19 - In-depth, verse-by-verse commentary and Bible study of John chapter 19 in plain English. "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" Oh! They place the cross upon Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country. (John 19:11) Jesus answered, . 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. It showed that he had laid down his life of himself. Acts 19 Acts 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. He would have sacrificed himself to save his countrymen, so heartily did he desire their eternal welfare. 1. What if the bread be dry, what if the medicine be nauseous; yet for his thirst there was no relief but gall and vinegar, and dare we complain? "He that taketh not up his cross and followeth not after me," says Christ, "is not worthy of me." Let us magnify and bless our Redeemer's name. wherein we see the Son of man in the gentleness of a son caring for his bereaved mother. We shall perhaps know it in our measure in our dying hour, but not yet, nor ever so terribly as he did. 19:1-18 Little did Pilate think with what holy regard these sufferings of Christ would, in after-ages, be thought upon and spoken of by the best and greatest of men. In that cry there is reconciliation to God. 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. 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. 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. We all know that a different dress will often raise a doubt about the identity of an individual; but lo! 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 already told you that such was our Lord's mystical desire; let it be ours also. "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." 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. 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." John 19:16 . The cup of which thou art made to drink, though it be very bitter, bears the mark of his lips about its brim. Did we not do so years ago before we knew him? Revelation: The Lectio Continua Expository Commentary on the New Testament (Beeke) $30.00 $40.00. I do not know how far it was from Pilate's house to the Mount of Doom. 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. "His way was much rougher and darker than mine; Did Christ, my Lord, suffer, and shall I repine?". It is the way whereby many shall be brought to Christ, when this blessed soul-thirst of true Christian charity shall be upon those who are themselves saved. Come, bring him your warm heart, and let him drink from that purified chalice as much as he wills. 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." 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. Cheerfully accept this burden, ye servants of the Lord. We ought all to have a longing for conversions. He loved the Gentile, but still Jerusalem was the city of the Great King. 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. Let us now gaze for awhile upon CHRIST CARRYING HIS CROSS. 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. It began with the mouth of appetite, when it was sinfully gratified, and it ends when a kindred appetite is graciously denied. 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." 2 And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, . Did he not tell his disciples, "I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished?" 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. He did not spare his Son the stripes. 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! Ah, that I cannot tell, except his own great love. Trust in the Son of God and you shall never die. 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. Even as the hart panteth after the water brooks, our souls would thirst after thee, O God. 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. 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. The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. With "I thirst" the evil is destroyed and receives its expiation. There is one way by which you can tell whether he carried your sin or not. 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. 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. The high places of earth's worship and honor are not for us. And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou ? "I thirst," is his human body tormented by grievous pain. 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. I think, beloved friends, that the cry of "I thirst" was THE MYSTICAL EXPRESSION OF THE DESIRE OF HIS HEART "I thirst." You and I have nothing else to preach. But further, my brethren; this, I think, is the great lesson from Christ's being slaughtered without the gate of the city let us go forth, therefore, without the camp, bearing his reproach. It is so with each one of you? We see in Simon's carrying the cross a picture of what the Church is to do throughout all generations. 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." You have been ill, and you have been parched with fever as he was, and then you too have gasped out "I thirst." Your noble Prince is preparing for his marriage: mine is hastening to his doom. 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." My Lord is not altogether without his espoused one. 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. The extreme tension produced a burning feverishness. 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. The flood of his grief has passed the high-water mark, and began to be assuaged. 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. 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. why hast thou forsaken me?" 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. Hast thou laid thy hand upon his head, confessed thy sin, and trusted in him? Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was born in Essex, England. Jesus said, "I thirst," and this is the complaint of a man. And yet again in the eighth chapter the bride saith, "I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate." I am ashamed of some professed Christians, heartily ashamed of them! What, then, dear friends, should be the sorrows excited by a view of Christ's sufferings? 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. Betrayal and arrest in the garden. "'Twere you my sins, my cruel sins, His chief tormentors were; Each of my grimes became a nail, And unbelief the spear. 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. good God! Beloved, there is now upon our Master, and there always has been, a thirst after the love of his people. Come let us pour out full flagons, until his joy is fulfilled in us. 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. I have shown you, believer, your position; let me now show you your service. He goes forth, then, bearing his cross. 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