Ah, that I cannot tell, except his own great love. Shall it ever be a hardship to be denied the satisfying draught when he said, "I thirst." The excitement of a great struggle makes men forget thirst and faintness; it is only when all is over that they come back to themselves and note the spending of their strength. The flood of his grief has passed the high-water mark, and began to be assuaged. Weep not for him, but for these. So were the streets of Jerusalem; for great multitudes followed him. 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. Did not the prophecies say that man would give to his incarnate God gall to eat and vinegar to drink? If not, bestir yourselves at once. Add to Cart. It was one of Death's castles; here he stored his gloomiest trophies; he was the grim lord of that stronghold. A new edition of Spurgeon's classic devotional using the ESV. Nor is this all. 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. My heart shall not be content till he is all in all to me, and I am altogether lost in him. Mine is adorned with garments crimsoned with his own blood. The last expiring word in which he commended his spirit to his Father, is the note of acceptance for himself and for us all. 1. Those pictures which represent our Lord as wearing the crown of thorns upon the tree have therefore at least some scriptural warrant. 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." John 19:4-5. That impenitent thief went from the cross of his great agony and it was agony indeed to die on a cross he went to that place, to the flames of hell; and you, too, may go from the bed of sickness, and from the abode of poverty, to perdition, quite as readily as from the home of ease and the house of plenty. John 19:1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. She craved full flagons of love though she was already overpowered by it. Do not let the picture vanish till you have satisfied yourselves once for all that Christ was here the substitute for you. "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." 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. 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. 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. 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. Hail, ye despised children of the sun, ye follow first after the King in the march of woe. John 19 Commentary John chapter 19 commentary Bible study. John 18:19-40 - Glory on Trial A. May we not despise our loaded table while he is neglected? 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. away with him." 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. Jesus thirsted, then let us thirst in this dry and thirsty land where no water is. He can receive vinegar, but not lukewarm love. No longer sink below the brim; But overflow, and pour me down A living and life-giving stream.". He also knew well the terrible joy that comes only through suffering as he lived quite afflicted (both by illness and slander). 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. We see in Simon's carrying the cross a picture of what the Church is to do throughout all generations. 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." He did not spare his Son the stripes. The utterance of "I thirst" brought out A TYPE OF MAN'S TREATMENT OF HIS LORD. 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. II. It is done. When they had mocked him they pulled off the purple garment he had worn, this rough operation would cause much pain. The woes which broke the Savior's heart must crush theirs. 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. O Lord Jesus, we love thee and we worship thee! Shall the servant be above his Master, or the disciple above his Lord? In the multitude there was a sparse sprinkling of tender-hearted women, probably those who had been healed, or whose children had been blessed by him. You do suffer. "Deliver him to the tormentors," was the word of the king in the parable; it shall be fulfilled to you "Depart ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels." 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. John 19:3. Jesus was deserted of God; and if he, who was only imputedly a sinner, was deserted, how much more shall you be? _Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. Nor dost thou set a time for waiting, but instantly thou dost set wide the gate of pearl; thou hast all power in heaven as well as upon earth. So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. Alas, man is the slave and the dupe of Satan, and a black-hearted traitor to his God. The most Scriptural way to describe the sufferings of Christ is not by laboring to excite sympathy through highly-coloured descriptions of his blood and wounds. "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" 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. Hate sin, and heartily loathe it; but thirst to be holy as God is holy, thirst to be like Christ, thirst to bring glory to his sacred name by complete conformity to his will. There are no passages in all the public ministry of Jesus so tender as those which have regard to Jerusalem. Here, as everywhere else, we are constrained to say of our Lord, "Never man spake like this man." 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. It was the common place of death. (7) Luke 23:46 And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, "Father, INTO THY HANDS I COMMIT MY SPIRIT. John 19:16 . Borrowed from his lips it well suiteth my mouth. 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. Some of you will! 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. Oh! Jesus, being a man, escaped none of the ills which are allotted to man in death. 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 tender mercies of the wicked are cruel, they cannot spare him the agonies of dying on the cross, they will therefore remit the labor of carrying it. These are awful words, but they are not mine; they are the very words of God in Scripture. "I thirst," ay, this is my soul's word with her Lord. " And having said this, He breathed His last. Brother, thirst I pray you to have your workpeople saved. 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. It is so with each one of you? 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. This was the act too of man at his best, when he is moved to pity; for it seems clear that he who lifted up the wet sponge to the Redeemer's lips, did it in compassion. wherein we see the Son of man in the gentleness of a son caring for his bereaved mother. May God deliver you! The world has in former days counted it God's service to kill the saints. Dear friend, if you think that you suffer all that a Christian can suffer; if all God's billows roll over you, yet, remember, there is not one drop of wrath in all your sea of sorrow. 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 Trust in the Son of God and you shall never die. 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. It seems to me very wonderful that this "I thirst" should be, as it were, the clearance of it all. 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. 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." Betrayal and arrest in the garden. To-day I invite your attention to another Prince, marching in another fashion through his metropolis. The great agony of being forsaken by God was over, and he felt faint when the strain was withdrawn. What joy, what satisfaotion this will give if we can sing, "My soul looks back to see The burden thou didst bear, When hastening to the accursed tree, And knows her guilt was there!". 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 ought not to forget the Jews. 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. He derived spiritual refreshment from the winning of that women's heart to himself. As Christ went through the streets, a great multitude looked on. 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. 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. John 1 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries; John 1:12 Multiple Older Commentaries on this verse; . 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. Appetite was the door of sin, and therefore in that point our Lord was put to pain. 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." First, we shall look upon them as THE ENSIGN OF HIS TRUE HUMANITY. Have you repented of sin? Let us magnify and bless our Redeemer's name. Take up your cross, and go without the camp, following your Lord, even until death. We read, "The soldiers also mocked him, offering him vinegar." Hunger and thirst after righteousness, for you shall be filled. Ray Stedman John and Herod 1549 - Good News for Thirsty Souls 1550 - The Unspeakable Gift 1551 - Today! "Women, behold thy son!" Commentators like Thomas Manton and John Calvin are represented in this series. We would fain lift thy name on high in grateful remembrance of the depths to which thou didst descend! You and I have nothing else to preach. 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. While other religions create what appear to be worship-filled gatherings, they are empty and void of fact. Shake off the thought, any of you who suppose that God will have pity on you because you have endured affliction. You carry the cross after him. Cheerfully accept this burden, ye servants of the Lord. It is almost done, thou Christ of God; thou hast almost saved thy people; there remaineth but one thing more, that thou shouldst actually die, and hence thy strong desire to come to the end and complete thy labour. 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. 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 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 must love, it is his nature. Certainly it is so with you; you do but carry the light end of the cross; Christ bore the heavier end. 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. We can never forget the painful scenes of which we have been witness, when we have watched the dissolving of the human frame. (1-3) Jesus enters the garden, followed by Judas and his troops. "'Twere you my sins, my cruel sins, His chief tormentors were; Each of my grimes became a nail, And unbelief the spear. Do not let us forget the infinite distance between the Lord of glory on his throne and the Crucified dried up with thirst. 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. 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. 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? Glorious stoop of our exalted Head! Was not the Redeemer led thither to aggravate his shame? Let me add, that when we look at the sufferings of Christ, we ought to sorrow deeply for the souls of all unregenerate men and women. 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 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. 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. Always was he in harmony with himself, and his own body was always expressive of his soul's cravings as well as of its own longings. You are not, therefore, so poor as he. 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. You see there the multitude are leading him forth from the temple. Our Lord says, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink," that thirst being the result of sin in every ungodly man at this moment. John 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. He is not allowed to worship with them. John 19:16 . 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. 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. Pilate, as we reminded you, scourged our Savior according to the common custom of Roman courts. But what shall be your cry when you shall say, "Good God! The arrow which has lately pierced thee, my brother, was first stained with his blood. 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. 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. And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and they put on Him a purple robe. No man dare call him friend now, or whisper a word of comfort to him. "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." Revelation: The Lectio Continua Expository Commentary on the New Testament (Beeke) $30.00 $40.00. 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. 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. God forbid! Yes, he loves to be with his people; they are the garden where he walks for refreshment, and their love, their graces, are the milk and wine which he delights to drink. "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do" is the first. Volume 19, Sermons 1089-1149 (1873) Hide. Our Lord in his death-cries, as in all else, was perfection itself. A refined and heavenly appetite, a craving for our Lord. 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. After preaching his first sermon at the age of 16, he became pastor of the church in Waterbeach at the age of 17. 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. 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. Beloved, there is now upon our Master, and there always has been, a thirst after the love of his people. No, no; we must not make a cross of our own. Your noble Prince is preparing for his marriage: mine is hastening to his doom. Like the steps of a ladder or the links of a golden chain, there is a mutual dependence and interlinking of each of the cries, so that one leads to another and that to a third. Nay more; he is banished from their society, as if he were a leper whose breath would be infectious whose presence would scatter plague. 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. "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani," what an awful shriek! After our Lord Jesus Christ had been formally condemned by Pilate, our text tells us he was led away. 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. V. Lastly, the cry of "I thirst" is to us THE PATTERN OF OUR DEATH WITH HIM. Calvary was like our Old Bailey; it was the usual place of execution for the district. For his sake we may rejoice in self-denials, and accept Christ and a crust as all we desire between here and heaven. 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. You may sit under a sermon, and feel a great deal, but your feeling is worthless unless it leads you to weep for yourselves and for your children. This hint only. 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! 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. Some of you will not be baptized because you think people will say, "He is a professor; how holy he ought to be." why hast thou forsaken me?" May we not be half ashamed of our pleasures when he says, "I thirst"? 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'? With "I thirst" the evil is destroyed and receives its expiation. 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." 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. 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. 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? That man is a fool and deserves no pity, who purposely excites the disgust of other people. He believed, as a Roman in gods many. You must consider Jesus, and not yourself; turn your eye to Christ, the great substitute for sinners, but never dream of trusting in yourselves. How near akin the thirsty Saviour is to us; let us love him more and more. 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." 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. "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.". Christ was always thirsty to save men, and to be loved of men; and we see a type of his life-long desire when, being weary, he sat thus on the well and said to the woman of Samaria, "Give me to drink." "After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst." good God! For him they have no tolerance. It was a confirmation of the Scripture testimony with regard to man's natural enmity to God. Let the sympathy of Christ, then, be fully believed in and deeply appreciated, since he said, "I thirst." Let me show what I think he meant. It was most fitting that every word of our Lord upon the cross should be gathered up and preserved. Will your Prince be decorated with honors? Think of the millions in this dark world! And said, Hail, King of the Jews!_ 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. Acts 19 Acts 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. Let us now gaze for awhile upon CHRIST CARRYING HIS CROSS. Do you not remember how that thirst of his was strong in the old days of the prophet? 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. Beware of rendering him homage and dishonouring his name at the same time. 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. Well, then, what means this cry, "I thirst," but this, that we should thirst too? You have blessed company; your path is marked with footprints of your Lord. Perhaps they are your children, the objects of your fondest love, with no interest in Christ, without God and without hope in the world! See, brethren, here is a picture of what we may expect from men if we are faithful to our Master. London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. One word: transformation. Oh! Home; Origin; Birth; John; Acts; About; JOHN 19 COMMENTARY . Come, bring him your warm heart, and let him drink from that purified chalice as much as he wills. That is very possible; Christ may have carried the heavier end, against the transverse beam, and Simon may have borne the lighter end. 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. Who among us would not willingly pour out his soul unto death if he might but give refreshment to the Lord? 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