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'? A river of the water of life, pure as crystal, proceedeth to-day out of the throne of God and of the Lamb, and yet once he condescended to say, "I thirst," before his angelic guards, they would surely have emulated the courage of the men of David when they cut their way to the well of Bethlehem that was within the gate, and drew water in jeopardy of their lives. I 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. A phantom, as some have called him, could not suffer in his fashion: but Jesus really suffered, not only the more refined pains of delicate and sensitive minds, but the rougher and commoner pangs of flesh and blood. "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do" is the first. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh." 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! Are you so frozen at heart that not a cup of cold water can be melted for Jesus? 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. what a black thought crosses our mind! Jesus was proved to be really man, because he suffered the pains which belong to manhood. Oh, wondrous substitution of the just for the unjust, of God for man, of the perfect Christ for us guilty, hell-deserving rebels. 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. 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?". Those once highly favored people of God who cursed themselves with, "His blood be upon us and upon our children," ought to make us mourn when we think of their present degradation. His most fruitful years of ministry were at the New Park Street and later the Metropolitan Tabernacle pulpit in London. 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. Betrayal and arrest in the garden. There are many other ways in which these words might be read, and they would be found to be all full of instruction. It was a confirmation of the Scripture testimony with regard to man's natural enmity to God. John 19:28 . Some of you will not be baptized because you think people will say, "He is a professor; how holy he ought to be." After our Lord Jesus Christ had been formally condemned by Pilate, our text tells us he was led away. Rutherford says, "Whenever Christ gives us a cross, he cries, 'Halves, my love.'" 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." 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. Amen. Dear fountain of delight unknown! Our Lord in his death-cries, as in all else, was perfection itself. Oh! What but for the juice of the vine that he might be refreshed? Let patience have her perfect work. 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." The spear broke up the very fountains of life; no human body could survive such a wound. I have already told you that such was our Lord's mystical desire; let it be ours also. In the fourth place, one or two words upon CHRIST'S FELLOW-SUFFERERS. 1. I show unto you a more excellent way. I have touched that point very lightly because I want a little more time to dwell upon a fourth view of this scene. 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 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. Of the many benefits we have in learning from Paul, a few stand out:1. What doth he say? 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." It was one of Death's castles; here he stored his gloomiest trophies; he was the grim lord of that stronghold. 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. John, the gospel of faith by Harrison, Everett Falconer, 1902- from Everyman's Bible Commentary series. Home; Origin; Birth; John; Acts; About; JOHN 19 COMMENTARY . But my Prince is hated without a cause. The last of his last words is also taken from the Scriptures, and shows where his mind was feeding. Are you lukewarm? Last Sunday the remark was made to me "If the story of the sufferings of Christ had been told of any other man, all the congregation would have been in tears." There are no passages in all the public ministry of Jesus so tender as those which have regard to Jerusalem. Was not the Redeemer led thither to aggravate his shame? (6) John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the sour wine, He said, " It is finished! Borrowed from his lips it well suiteth my mouth. He is thirsty still, you see, for our poor love, and surely we cannot deny it to him. It was a thirst such as none of us have ever known, for not yet has the death dew condensed upon our brows. My Lord is not altogether without his espoused one. Did not the prophecies say that man would give to his incarnate God gall to eat and vinegar to drink? 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. Hast thou laid thy hand upon his head, confessed thy sin, and trusted in him? He wants you brother, he wants you, dear sister, he longs to have you wholly to himself. Charles Haddon Spurgeon December 1, 1861 Scripture: John 19:30 From: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 7 It is Finished! Come to him in prayer, come to him in fellowship, come to him by perfect consecration, come to him by surrendering your whole being to the sweet mysterious influences of his Spirit. 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. Think of that! The Holy Spirit took special care that each of the sacred utterances should be fittingly recorded. To-day I invite your attention to another Prince, marching in another fashion through his metropolis. 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." John 19:28 J.R. Thomson This is both the shortest of all the dying utterances of Jesus, and it is the one which is most closely related to himself. 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. No, no; we must not make a cross of our own. Oh! 1. John 19:1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. II. She craved full flagons of love though she was already overpowered by it. We should love the cross, and count it very dear, because it works out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. John preached a sacrificial Saviour, a sin-bearing Saviour, a sin-atoning Saviour. Yet, dear friends, to some eyes there will be more attraction in the procession of sorrow, of shame, and of blood, than in you display of grandeur and joy. Such a greeting had the Lord of glory, but alas, it was not the shout of welcome, but the yell of "Away with 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. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it. First, we shall look upon them as THE ENSIGN OF HIS TRUE HUMANITY. As for yourselves, thirst after perfection. With "I thirst" the evil is destroyed and receives its expiation. Oh, shame that men should find so much applause for Princes and none for the King of kings. Hail, everlasting King in heaven, thou dost admit to thy paradise whomsoever thou wilt! 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. Shall carnal appetites be indulged and bodies pampered when Jesus cried :I thirst"? We used to melt when we heard about his sufferings, but we did not turn from our sins. And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe. Oh! Our sinful tongues, blistered by the fever of passion, must have burned for ever had not his tongue been tormented with thirst in our stead. Will your thoroughfares be thronged? "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do" here we see the Mediator interceding: Jesus standing before the Father pleading for the guilty. The world has in former days counted it God's service to kill the saints. Believing this, let us tenderly feel how very near akin to us our Lord Jesus has become. Did I not describe last Sabbath the knotted scourges which fell upon the Saviours back? 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. Remember that, and expect to suffer. I. There can be no shadow of doubt but that our Lord was really crucified, and no one substituted for him. "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." good God! Universal manhood, left to itself, rejects, crucifies, and mocks the Christ of God. He saw its streets flowing like bloody rivers; he saw the temple naming up to heaven; he marked the walls loaded with Jewish captives crucified by command of Titus; he saw the city razed to the ground and sown with salt, and he said, "Weep not for me, but for yourselves and for your children, for the day shall come when ye shall say to the rocks, Hide us, and to the mountains, Fall upon us." No blood but that which He has spilt, no groans but those which came from His heart, no suffering but that which was endured by Him, can ever make a recompense for sin. See, it has been blackened with bruises, and stained with the shameful spittle of them that derided him. 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. 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. Exposition of the Gospel according to John by Hendriksen, William, 1900-1982 (1953) 526 pages 19 ratings He is indeed "Immanuel, God with us" everywhere. It is done. 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. 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. The more manifestly there shall be a great gulf between the Church and the world, the better shall it be for both; the better for the world, for it shall be thereby warned; the better for the Church, for it shall be thereby preserved. It was most fitting that every word of our Lord upon the cross should be gathered up and preserved. " And He bowed His head, and gave up His spirit. 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. 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. So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. 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." We would fain lift thy name on high in grateful remembrance of the depths to which thou didst descend! Will your Prince be sumptuously arrayed? 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. There is bread upon your table to-day, and there will be at least a cup of cold water to refresh you. " And having said this, He breathed His last. ", 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. Jesus, being a man, escaped none of the ills which are allotted to man in death. Ray Stedman 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 1 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries; John 1:12 Multiple Older Commentaries on this verse; . I am ashamed of some professed Christians, heartily ashamed of them! 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 Shall the servant be above his Master, or the disciple above his Lord? 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. 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 cup of which thou art made to drink, though it be very bitter, bears the mark of his lips about its brim. The woes which broke the Savior's heart must crush theirs. Who among us would not willingly pour out his soul unto death if he might but give refreshment to the Lord? I have shown you, believer, your position; let me now show you your service. 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. Remember, dear friends, that what Christ suffered for us, these unregenerate ones must suffer for themselves, except they put their trust in Christ. 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!" 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. 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. I invite your attention to CHRIST AS LED FORTH. 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." We ought all to have a longing for conversions. 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 extreme tension produced a burning feverishness. Then came, "Women, behold thy son!" Will your Prince be decorated with honors? 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. Mark then, Christian, Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. You have seen Jesus led away by his enemies; so shall you be dragged away by fiends to the place appointed for you. III. A second mode of treating these seven cries is to view them as setting forth the person and offices of our Lord who uttered them. 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. He must love, it is his nature. 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. The soldiery mocked and insulted him in every way that cruelty and scorn could devise. Ah, that I cannot tell, except his own great love. 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. We read, "The soldiers also mocked him, offering him vinegar." We may well remember our faults this day. As you look at the cross upon his shoulders does it represent your sin? I think, beloved friends, that the cry of "I thirst" was THE MYSTICAL EXPRESSION OF THE DESIRE OF HIS HEART "I thirst." "I thirst," ay, this is my soul's word with her Lord. Pilate, as we reminded you, scourged our Savior according to the common custom of Roman courts. 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. Here is the forgiveness of sin free forgiveness in answer to the Saviour's plea. Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was born in Essex, England. "It is finished" is the last word but one, and there you see the perfected Saviour, the Captain of our salvation, who has completed the undertaking upon which he had entered, finished transgression, made an end of sin, and brought in ever lasting righteousness. If you will look, there is the mark of his blood-red shoulder upon that heavy cross. Commentators like Thomas Manton and John Calvin are represented in this series. He goes forth, then, bearing his cross. Here, as everywhere else, we are constrained to say of our Lord, "Never man spake like this man." 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. 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. And well they may; the son of such noble parents deserves a nation's love. 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. Volume 19, Sermons 1089-1149 (1873) Hide. 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." 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. This is man's treatment of his Saviour. Holy Scripture remains the basis of our faith, established by every word and act of our Redeemer. Nor is this all. 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? It is not likely that we shall be able to worship with their worship. (1-3) Jesus enters the garden, followed by Judas and his troops. Thirst is no royal grief, but an evil of universal manhood; Jesus is brother to the poorest and most humble of our race. But what shall be your cry when you shall say, "Good God! Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 19 John 19:1-16 John 19:1. If we be true to our Master we shall soon lose the friendship of the world. We shall perhaps know it in our measure in our dying hour, but not yet, nor ever so terribly as he did. Today! 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. O my hearers, beware of praising Jesus and denying his atoning sacrifice. "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." 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. 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. What learn we here as we see Christ led forth? 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. This thirst had been on him from the earliest of his earthly days. 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. Oh! Largest collection of Spurgeon resources online, including a complete 63 volume set of sermons, audio sermons, books, and quotes. No man dare call him friend now, or whisper a word of comfort to him. For several Sabbath mornings my mind has been directed into subjects which I might fitly call the deep things of God. So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. What, then, dear friends, should be the sorrows excited by a view of Christ's sufferings? We ought not to forget the Jews. I think that Roman soldier meant well, at least well for a rough warrior with his little light and knowledge. In the Lord of Hosts, who shows his power in the sufferings of Christ and of his Church. Have we not often given him vinegar to drink? 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. IV. Take up your cross, and go without the camp, following your Lord, even until death. Glorious stoop of our exalted Head! Think of the millions in this dark world! 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! "His way was much rougher and darker than mine; Did Christ, my Lord, suffer, and shall I repine?". 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. "Women, behold thy son!" 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. Your path runs hard by that of your Master. 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