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. 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. We will now take the text in a third way, and may the Spirit of God instruct us once again. He derived spiritual refreshment from the winning of that women's heart to himself. 1. 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! Even now to a large extent the true Christian is like a Pariah, lower than the lowest caste, in the judgment of some. 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. Thirst is no royal grief, but an evil of universal manhood; Jesus is brother to the poorest and most humble of our race. 'Tis his cross, and he goes before you as a shepherd goes before his sheep. Rutherford used words somewhat to this effect, "I thirst for my Lord and this is joy; a joy which no man taketh from me. Mine is adorned with garments crimsoned with his own blood. I have shown you, believer, your position; let me now show you your service. Of the many benefits we have in learning from Paul, a few stand out:1. John 19:1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. Our first parents plucked forbidden fruit, and by eating slew the race. 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. Let this mind be in you also. Glorious stoop of our exalted Head! For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh." 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. 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." Yonder young Prince is ruddy with the bloom of early youth and health; my Master's visage is more marred than that of any man. No longer sink below the brim; But overflow, and pour me down A living and life-giving stream.". Add to Cart. 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. Inductive Bible study on John 19. Are you so frozen at heart that not a cup of cold water can be melted for Jesus? 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. Our Lord in his death-cries, as in all else, was perfection itself. Those pictures which represent our Lord as wearing the crown of thorns upon the tree have therefore at least some scriptural warrant. No, no; we must not make a cross of our own. How harshly grate the cruel syllables, "Crucify him! Hunger and thirst after righteousness, for you shall be filled. Every word, therefore, you see teaches us some grand fundamental doctrine of our blessed faith. Remember that, and expect to suffer. 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. 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." You and I have nothing else to preach. I am ashamed of some professed Christians, heartily ashamed of them! I have already told you that such was our Lord's mystical desire; let it be ours also. 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. He would have sacrificed himself to save his countrymen, so heartily did he desire their eternal welfare. This hint only. I am glad the world expects much from us, and watches us narrowly. 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. 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 was the homage which the Son of God received from men; harmless and gentle, he came here with no purpose but that of doing good, and this is how mankind treated him. 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. 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. Scripture provides a wealth . What knocks he for? First, they teach and confirm many of the doctrines of our holy faith. Hark how their loud voices demand that he should be hastened to execution! 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? Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was born in Essex, England. 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. I believe there was a tenderness in Christ's heart to the Jew of a special character. (7) Luke 23:46 And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, "Father, INTO THY HANDS I COMMIT MY SPIRIT. 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. Well, then, what means this cry, "I thirst," but this, that we should thirst too? Today! Oh! I think, beloved friends, that the cry of "I thirst" was THE MYSTICAL EXPRESSION OF THE DESIRE OF HIS HEART "I thirst." Hail, ye despised children of the sun, ye follow first after the King in the march of woe. 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. His great love makes him thirst to have us much nearer than we are; he will never be satisfied till all his redeemed are beyond gunshot of thee enemy. I do not know how far it was from Pilate's house to the Mount of Doom. Think of the millions in this dark world! 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. I have now a third picture to present to you CHRIST AND HIS MOURNERS. 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." Jesus thirsted, then let us thirst in this dry and thirsty land where no water is. Partner with StudyLight.org as God uses us to make a difference for those displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine. 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. 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. 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. How they led him forth we do not know. The utterance of "I thirst" brought out A TYPE OF MAN'S TREATMENT OF HIS LORD. Let me show what I think he meant. 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. So were the streets of Jerusalem; for great multitudes followed him. Amen. Mark then, Christian, Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. I am not the One anointed of God to save mankind. John 1:21. To-day I invite your attention to another Prince, marching in another fashion through his metropolis. "I thirst," is his human body tormented by grievous pain. Jesus said, "I thirst," and this is the complaint of a man. But ye ask me where is the spouse, the king's daughter fair and beautiful? 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." 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. Remember, dear friends, that what Christ suffered for us, these unregenerate ones must suffer for themselves, except they put their trust in Christ. Such a greeting had the Lord of glory, but alas, it was not the shout of welcome, but the yell of "Away with him! The voice of sympathy prevailed over the voice of scorn. They prefer a ceremonial pompous and gaudy; the swell of music, the glitter of costly garments, the parade of learning all these must minister grandeur to the world's religion, and thus shut out the simple followers of the Lamb. We can never forget the painful scenes of which we have been witness, when we have watched the dissolving of the human frame. 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. Are you lukewarm? 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. Hail, everlasting King in heaven, thou dost admit to thy paradise whomsoever thou wilt! "We, whose proneness to forget Thy dear love, on Olivet Bathed thy brow with bloody sweat; "We whose sins, with awful power, Like a cloud did o'er thee lower, In that God-excluding hour; "We, who still, in thought and dead, Often hold the bitter reed To thee, in thy time of need.". The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God. (John 19:11) Jesus answered, . After our Lord Jesus Christ had been formally condemned by Pilate, our text tells us he was led away. O Lord Jesus, we love thee and we worship thee! Come let us pour out full flagons, until his joy is fulfilled in us. 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'? Save your tears for them; Christ asks them not in sympathy for himself. These are awful words, but they are not mine; they are the very words of God in Scripture. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. There is bread upon your table to-day, and there will be at least a cup of cold water to refresh you. While thus we admire his condescension let our thoughts also turn with delight to his sure sympathy: for if Jesus said, "I thirst," then he knows all our frailties and woes. So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. We gave him our tears and then grieved him with our sins. There are many other ways in which these words might be read, and they would be found to be all full of instruction. He thirsted for water doubtless, but his soul was thirsty in a higher sense; indeed, he seems only to have spoken that the Scriptures might be fulfilled as to the offering him vinegar. 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. All this is a blessed clog upon us, and a means of keeping us more near the Lord. _Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. The Christian faith and motives for Christian worship are based on the certainty of facts. 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 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. Henceforth, also, let us cultivate the spirit of resignation, for we may well rejoice to carry a cross which his shoulders have borne before us. Commentators like Thomas Manton and John Calvin are represented in this series. Ray Stedman Jesus, being a man, escaped none of the ills which are allotted to man in death. John Chapter 19 - In-depth, verse-by-verse commentary and Bible study of John chapter 19 in plain English. 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." Lloyd-Jones opens John 19:31-37 to answer that very question. 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? I have touched that point very lightly because I want a little more time to dwell upon a fourth view of this scene. Sister, thirst for the salvation of your class, thirst for the redemption of your family, thirst for the conversion of your husband. Holy Scripture remains the basis of our faith, established by every word and act of our Redeemer. 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. 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? "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." God forbid! "The sea is his, and he made it," and all fountains and springs are of his digging. You are not, therefore, so poor as he. Certain philosophers have said that they love the pursuit of truth even better than the knowledge of truth. I invite your attention to CHRIST AS LED FORTH. Christ was spit upon with shame; sinner, what shame will be yours! Did he not tell his disciples, "I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished?" 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. Let there be nothing but your religion to object to, and then if that offends them let them be offended, it is a cross which you must carry joyfully. I cannot think that natural thirst was all he felt. "Weep for yourselves," says Christ, "rather than for me." All nations gathered about my Lord, both great and mean men clustered around his person. The spear broke up the very fountains of life; no human body could survive such a wound. Secondly, we shall regard these words, "I thirst," as THE TOKEN OF HIS SUFFERING SUBSTITUTION. 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. Is not this a fertile field of thought? How has it been with you? 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." "To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise." O to be enlarged in soul so as to take deeper draughts of his sweet love, for our heart cannot have enough. 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. 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. Alas poor African, thou hast been compelled to carry the cross even until now. 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. 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." Will your Prince be sumptuously arrayed? 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. Alas, man is the slave and the dupe of Satan, and a black-hearted traitor to his God. You see there the multitude are leading him forth from the temple. For a biblical, reformed, and historic collection of commentaries, the Geneva Series is unsurpassed. 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." Metaphorically understood, thirst is dissatisfaction, the craving of the mind for something which it has not, but which it pines for. We read, "The soldiers also mocked him, offering him vinegar." Take up your cross, and go without the camp, following your Lord, even until death. 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. 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. But how vast was the disparity! 2 And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, . 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. 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. A strong emphasis in Spurgeon's preaching was God's grace and sovereignty over man's helpless state. London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. 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. 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? What doth he say? The woes which broke the Savior's heart must crush theirs. 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 points to the anguish of his soul; "I thirst" expresses in part the torture of his body; and they were both needful, because it is written of the God of justice that he is "able to destroy both soul and body in hell," and the pangs that are due to law are of both kinds, touching both heart and flesh. crucify him!" C.H. "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." 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. Appetite was the door of sin, and therefore in that point our Lord was put to pain. Brother, thirst I pray you to have your workpeople saved. IV. 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. Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 19 John 19:1-16 John 19:1. Here is the forgiveness of sin free forgiveness in answer to the Saviour's plea. 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. Jesus paused, and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me; but weep for yourselves and for your children." 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. Then came, "Women, behold thy son!" O my hearers, beware of praising Jesus and denying his atoning sacrifice. My heart shall not be content till he is all in all to me, and I am altogether lost in him. Betrayal and arrest in the garden. A new edition of Spurgeon's classic devotional using the ESV. The Holy Spirit took special care that each of the sacred utterances should be fittingly recorded. How near akin the thirsty Saviour is to us; let us love him more and more. Say not that the comparison is strained, for in a moment I will withdraw it and present the contrast. You have seen Jesus led away by his enemies; so shall you be dragged away by fiends to the place appointed for you. It is not sorrow over Rome, but Jerusalem. How truly man he is; he is, indeed, "bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh," for he bears our infirmities. 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. Others think that Simon carried the whole of the cross. 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. Our great hero, the destroyer of Death, bearded the lion in his den, slew the monster in his own castle, and dragged the dragon captive from his own den. Although Simon carried Christ's cross, he did not volunteer to do it, but they compelled him. In the former cry, as he opened Paradise, you saw the Son of God; now you see him who was verily and truly born of a women, made under the law; and under the law you see him still, for he honours his mother and cares for her in the last article of death. 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. 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. 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. are they not more like sharp vinegar? 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. Dear fountain of delight unknown! He saith, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock." 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. 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. And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and they put on Him a purple robe. Who among us would not willingly pour out his soul unto death if he might but give refreshment to the Lord? And they asked him, What then? Thou wast still straightened till the last pang was felt and the last word spoken to complete to full redemption, and hence thy cry, "I thirst." 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? Sit at his feet with Mary, lean on his breast with John; yea, come with the spouse in the song and say, "Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for his love is better than wine." The soldiery mocked and insulted him in every way that cruelty and scorn could devise. This thirst had been on him from the earliest of his earthly days. 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. As Spurgeon puts it "Faith is described as 'receiving' Jesus. We do not read that they removed the crown of thorns, and therefore it is most probable, though not absolutely certain, that our Savior wore it along the Via Dolorosa, and also bore it upon his head when he was fastened to the cross. "And they took Jesus, and led him away." As not a bone of him shall be broken, so not a word shall be lost. Oh! For his sake we may rejoice in self-denials, and accept Christ and a crust as all we desire between here and heaven. Bearing upon his back the sin of all his people, the offering goes without the camp. 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. The power to suffer for another, the capacity to be self-denying even to an extreme to accomplish some great work for God this is a thing to be sought after, and must be gained before our work is done, and in this Jesus is before us our example and our strength. 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