what a black thought crosses our mind! We would fain lift thy name on high in grateful remembrance of the depths to which thou didst descend! The spear broke up the very fountains of life; no human body could survive such a wound. Alas, my brethren, I cannot say much on the score of man's cruelty to our Lord without touching myself and you. It was, "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often would I have gathered thy children together as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, but ye would not!" Here you see how the mortal flesh had to share in the agony of the inward spirit. Let us now gaze for awhile upon CHRIST CARRYING HIS CROSS. He derived spiritual refreshment from the winning of that women's heart to himself. We can never forget the painful scenes of which we have been witness, when we have watched the dissolving of the human frame. Some of you will not be baptized because you think people will say, "He is a professor; how holy he ought to be." As these seven sayings were so faithfully recorded, we do not wonder that they have frequently been the subject of devout meditation. She craved full flagons of love though she was already overpowered by it. Read Joo 15:7 bible commentary from Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible by Charles Haddon Spurgeon FREE on BiblePortal.com John, the gospel of faith by Harrison, Everett Falconer, 1902- from Everyman's Bible Commentary series. The Lord bless you, for Jesus' own sake. 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. The Church must suffer, that the gospel may be spread by her means. 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." 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. What learn we here as we see Christ led forth? May we not despise our loaded table while he is neglected? 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." Oh! IV. London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. 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. Appetite was the door of sin, and therefore in that point our Lord was put to pain. You must consider Jesus, and not yourself; turn your eye to Christ, the great substitute for sinners, but never dream of trusting in yourselves. Hark how their loud voices demand that he should be hastened to execution! There was nothing behind in the price, but there is something behind in the manifested power, and we must continue to fill up that measure of revealed power, carrying each one of us the cross with Christ, till the last shame shall have been poured upon his cause, and he shall reign for ever and ever. Think, dear friends, there are some in this congregation who as yet have no interest in Jesu's blood, some sitting next to you, your nearest friends who, if they were now to close their eyes in death, would open them in hell! 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. I have now a third picture to present to you CHRIST AND HIS MOURNERS. 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. The soldiery mocked and insulted him in every way that cruelty and scorn could devise. 1. With "I thirst" the evil is destroyed and receives its expiation. Simon had to carry the cross but for a very little time, yet his name is in this Book for ever, and we may envy him his honor. It is a blow at the fable of purgatory which strikes it to the heart. There are many other ways in which these words might be read, and they would be found to be all full of instruction. No longer sink below the brim; But overflow, and pour me down A living and life-giving stream.". He must love his chosen whom he has once begun to love, for he is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. They force him without the walls, and are not satisfied till they have rid themselves of his obnoxious presence. In that cry there is reconciliation to God. He wants you brother, he wants you, dear sister, he longs to have you wholly to himself. 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. Oh! "I thirst," is his human body tormented by grievous pain. We are not sure that Simon was a disciple of Christ; he may have been a friendly spectator; yet one would think the Jews would naturally select a disciple if they could. 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." And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou ? Let all your love be his. Conceal your religion? 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. I do not know how far it was from Pilate's house to the Mount of Doom. There are some who in company hold their tongues, and never say a good word for Christ. 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." Of the many benefits we have in learning from Paul, a few stand out:1. 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 "He that taketh not up his cross and followeth not after me," says Christ, "is not worthy of me." 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. Then the goat was led away by a fit man into the wilderness, and it carried away the sins of the people, so that if they were sought for, they could not be found. Oh, shame that men should find so much applause for Princes and none for the King of kings. Commentary on John 19:31-37 (Read John 19:31-37) A trial was made whether Jesus was dead. Spurgeon left this earth for his heavenly hope in 1892. 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. 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. "After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst." 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. You carry the cross after him. A strong emphasis in Spurgeon's preaching was God's grace and sovereignty over man's helpless state. 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." 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." March 1st, 1863 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). 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." We are in the world, but we must never be of it; we are not to be secluded like monks in the cloister, but we are to be separated like Jews among Gentiles; men, but not of men; helping, aiding, befriending, teaching, comforting, instructing, but not sinning either to escape a frown or to win a smile. I know he loves to receive from you, because he delights even in a cup of cold water that you give to one of his disciples; how much more will he delight in the giving of your whole self to him? " And He bowed His head, and gave up His spirit. 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. Have we not often given him vinegar to drink? 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. Today! 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. Oh! He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. 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. "Weep for yourselves," says Christ, "rather than for me." I show unto you a more excellent way. Will your Prince be decorated with honors? Cheerfully accept this burden, ye servants of the Lord. The Holy Spirit took special care that each of the sacred utterances should be fittingly recorded. May the Holy Spirit often lead us to glean therein. 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. II. Let the sympathy of Christ, then, be fully believed in and deeply appreciated, since he said, "I thirst." 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. _Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. I am glad the world expects much from us, and watches us narrowly. John Chapter 19 - In-depth, verse-by-verse commentary and Bible study of John chapter 19 in plain English. Do we not see here the truth of that which was set forth in shadow by the scape-goat? "And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes," vinegar, and not wine; sourness, and not sweetness. 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. 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! London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. We see how the Holy Spirit wants us to pray. 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 have touched that point very lightly because I want a little more time to dwell upon a fourth view of this scene. Ah, that I cannot tell, except his own great love. What doth he say? The sufferings of Christ should make us weep over those who have brought that blood upon their heads. It is the empty cup placed under the flowing stream; the penniless hand held out for heavenly alms." . All this is a blessed clog upon us, and a means of keeping us more near the Lord. Let us magnify and bless our Redeemer's name. 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? ", 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 said, "I thirst," and this is the complaint of a man. There were, as you know, seven of those last words, and seven is the number of perfection and fulness; the number which blends the three of the infinite God with the four of complete creation. Charles Haddon Spurgeon December 1, 1861 Scripture: John 19:30 From: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 7 It is Finished! Come, bring him your warm heart, and let him drink from that purified chalice as much as he wills. April 14th, 1878 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). It is that he may eat and drink with you, for he promises that if we open to him he will enter in and sup with us and we with him. III. "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. 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. No, no; we must not make a cross of our own. 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." May the Holy Ghost work in you the complete pattern of Christ crucified, and to him shall be praise for ever and ever. 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? Oh, wondrous substitution of the just for the unjust, of God for man, of the perfect Christ for us guilty, hell-deserving rebels. "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" Our Lord in his death-cries, as in all else, was perfection itself. John and Herod 1549 - Good News for Thirsty Souls 1550 - The Unspeakable Gift 1551 - Today! This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. The words, "I thirst," are a common voice in death chambers. 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? There can be no shadow of doubt but that our Lord was really crucified, and no one substituted for him. For him they have no tolerance. 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." Partner with StudyLight.org as God uses us to make a difference for those displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine. 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. 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. Think of that! 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." 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. Barrabas may go free; the thief and the murderer may be spared; but for Christ there is no word, but "Away with such a fellow from the earth! You may die so, you may die now. Every word, therefore, you see teaches us some grand fundamental doctrine of our blessed faith. Bearing upon his back the sin of all his people, the offering goes without the camp. And said, Hail, King of 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. It was the common place of death. He also knew well the terrible joy that comes only through suffering as he lived quite afflicted (both by illness and slander). Thirst is no royal grief, but an evil of universal manhood; Jesus is brother to the poorest and most humble of our race. Oh! "Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, and touch not the unclean thing." These are silken days, and religion fights not so stern a battle. 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. 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 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. 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. It is not likely that we shall be able to worship with their worship. How near akin the thirsty Saviour is to us; let us love him more and more. John 19:1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. 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. 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 Redeemer's cry of "I thirst" is a solemn lesson of patience to his afflicted. "And they took Jesus, and led him away." 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. good God! The sharpness of that sentence no exposition can fully disclose to us: it is keen as the very edge and point of the sword which pierced his heart. 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. 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. 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. Oh! It began with the mouth of appetite, when it was sinfully gratified, and it ends when a kindred appetite is graciously denied. 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." Hunger and thirst after righteousness, for you shall be filled. Let me show what I think he meant. 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. John preached a sacrificial Saviour, a sin-bearing Saviour, a sin-atoning Saviour. Can they be compared to generous wine? Come let us pour out full flagons, until his joy is fulfilled in us. A few times the sun will go up and down the hill; a few more moons will wax and wane, and then we shall receive the glory. "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." Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. Did not the high-priest bring the scape-goat, and put both his hands upon its head, confessing the sins of the people, that thus those sins might be laid upon the goat? 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. It is calculated that one soul passes from time into eternity every time the clock ticks! 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. We read, "The soldiers also mocked him, offering him vinegar." Calvary was like our Old Bailey; it was the usual place of execution for the district. Take up your cross, and go without the camp, following your Lord, even until death. Such a greeting had the Lord of glory, but alas, it was not the shout of welcome, but the yell of "Away with him! We do not know what may have been the color of alimony face, but it was most likely black. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. C.H. As Spurgeon puts it "Faith is described as 'receiving' Jesus. He was innocent, and yet he thirsted; shall we marvel if guilty ones are now and then chastened? Conservative, but not too much depth. 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. Are you lukewarm? Remember, dear friends, that what Christ suffered for us, these unregenerate ones must suffer for themselves, except they put their trust in Christ. "Wist ye not," said he, while yet a boy, "that I must be about my Father's business?" It was one of Death's castles; here he stored his gloomiest trophies; he was the grim lord of that stronghold. For several Sabbath mornings my mind has been directed into subjects which I might fitly call the deep things of God. I like to think of our Lord's saying, "It is finished," directly after he had exclaimed, "I thirst"; for these two voices come so naturally together. And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. For the thousands of eyes which shall gaze upon the youthful Prince, I offer the gaze of men and angels. Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was born in Essex, England. Our first parents plucked forbidden fruit, and by eating slew the race. But my Prince is hated without a cause. 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. If he carried all the cross, yet he only carried the wood of it; he did not bear the sin which made it such a load. 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. I have shown you, believer, your position; let me now show you your service. He had been all night in agony, he had spent the early morning at the hall of Caiaphas, he had been hurried, as I described to you last Sunday, from Caiaphas to Pilate, from Pilate to Herod, and from Herod back again to Pilate; he had, therefore, but little strength left, and you will not wonder that by-and-bye we find him staggering beneath his load, and that another is called to bear it with him. The utterance of "I thirst" brought out A TYPE OF MAN'S TREATMENT OF HIS LORD. 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. and the answer shall come back, "Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; but ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh." 1. Then comes the "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" You have blessed company; your path is marked with footprints of your Lord. "I thirst" is the fifth cry, and its utterance teaches us the truth of Scripture, for all things were accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, and therefore our Lord said, "I thirst." Commentators like Thomas Manton and John Calvin are represented in this series. May the Holy Ghost help us to hear a fourth tuning of the dolorous music, "I thirst." I have already told you that such was our Lord's mystical desire; let it be ours also. "The sea is his, and he made it," and all fountains and springs are of his digging. We know from experience that the present effect of sin in every man who indulges in it is thirst of soul. 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. 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. (1-3) Jesus enters the garden, followed by Judas and his troops. 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." Borrowed from his lips it well suiteth my mouth. 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. Jesus was deserted of God; and if he, who was only imputedly a sinner, was deserted, how much more shall you be? What but for the juice of the vine that he might be refreshed? Romish expositors, who draw upon their prolific fancy for their facts, tell us that he had a rope about his neck with which they roughly dragged him to the tree; this is one of the most probable of their surmises, since it was not unusual for the Romans thus to conduct criminals to the gallows. 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