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." Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. "Verily I say unto thee, to-day shalt thou be with me in paradise" this is the Lord Jesus in kingly power, opening with the key of David a door which none can shut, admitting into the gates of heaven the poor soul who had confessed him on the tree. and they smote him with their hands. So he was thirsting then. The great agony of being forsaken by God was over, and he felt faint when the strain was withdrawn. 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." 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. It began with the mouth of appetite, when it was sinfully gratified, and it ends when a kindred appetite is graciously denied. You see there the multitude are leading him forth from the temple. How truly man he is; he is, indeed, "bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh," for he bears our infirmities. Did we not do so years ago before we knew him? It is the opinion of some commentators that Simon only carried one end of the cross, and not the whole of it. The whole universe shall hiss you; angels shall be ashamed of you; your own friends, yes, your sainted mother, shall say "Amen" to your condemnation; and those who loved you best shall sit as assessors with Christ to judge you and condemn you! It is the empty cup placed under the flowing stream; the penniless hand held out for heavenly alms." . They take matters very gently; they think it unnecessary to be soldiers of the cross. What doth he say? Believing this, let us tenderly feel how very near akin to us our Lord Jesus has become. You have seen Jesus led away by his enemies; so shall you be dragged away by fiends to the place appointed for you. These are awful words, but they are not mine; they are the very words of God in Scripture. This thirst had been on him from the earliest of his earthly days. 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." (6) John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the sour wine, He said, " It is finished! Mark you, the ransom of men was all paid by Christ; that was redemption by price. John 19:4-5. For a biblical, reformed, and historic collection of commentaries, the Geneva Series is unsurpassed. 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." And they asked him, What then? We gave him our tears and then grieved him with our sins. Read Joo 15:7 bible commentary from Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible by Charles Haddon Spurgeon FREE on BiblePortal.com away with him." Alas poor African, thou hast been compelled to carry the cross even until now. 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. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh." John 19:7-8. John 19 Commentary John chapter 19 commentary Bible study. You and I have nothing else to preach. I am not the One anointed of God to save mankind. John 1:21. He pitied the sufferer, but he thought so little of him that he joined in the voice of scorn. 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. 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. Others think that Simon carried the whole of the cross. 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 Redeemer's cry of "I thirst" is a solemn lesson of patience to his afflicted. 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." 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. Beware of rendering him homage and dishonouring his name at the same time. "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." 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. It is calculated that one soul passes from time into eternity every time the clock ticks! 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." 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. Who among us would not willingly pour out his soul unto death if he might but give refreshment to the Lord? 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. I am ashamed of some professed Christians, heartily ashamed of them! And said, Hail, King of the Jews!_ Well, beloved, the cross we have to carry is only for a little while at most. You may die so, you may die now. 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? 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. "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." Even as the hart panteth after the water brooks, our souls would thirst after thee, O God. Charles Haddon Spurgeon December 1, 1861 Scripture: John 19:30 From: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 7 It is Finished! He must love, it is his nature. Conceal your religion? What a cataract of immortal souls dashes downwards to the pit every hour! 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." 1. 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." 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. I will not say it is because we are unfaithful to our Master that the world is more kind to us, but I half suspect it is, and it is very possible that if we were more thoroughly Christians the world would more heartily detest us, and if we would cleave more closely to Christ we might expect to receive more slander, more abuse, less tolerance, and less favor from men. Simon was an African; he came from Cyrene. 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." Christ comes forth from Pilate's hall with the cumbrous wood upon his shoulder, but through weariness he travels slowly, and his enemies urgent for his death, and half afraid, from his emaciated appearance, that he may die before he reaches the place of execution, allow another to carry his burden. Certain philosophers have said that they love the pursuit of truth even better than the knowledge of truth. Was not the Redeemer led thither to aggravate his shame? 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. We all know that a different dress will often raise a doubt about the identity of an individual; but lo! That man is a fool and deserves no pity, who purposely excites the disgust of other people. Have we not often given him vinegar to drink? Did he not tell his disciples, "I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished?" And yet again in the eighth chapter the bride saith, "I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate." It seems to me very wonderful that this "I thirst" should be, as it were, the clearance of it all. I. Of the many benefits we have in learning from Paul, a few stand out:1. Therefore while he thirsts give him to drink this day. 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." 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. John preached a sacrificial Saviour, a sin-bearing Saviour, a sin-atoning Saviour. 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. To-day I invite your attention to another Prince, marching in another fashion through his metropolis. Now Christ standing in the stead of the ungodly suffers thirst as a type of his enduring the result of sin. He is thirsty still, you see, for our poor love, and surely we cannot deny it to him. Trust in the Son of God and you shall never die. So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. A carnal appetite of the body, the satisfaction of the desire for food, first brought us down under the first Adam, and now the pang of thirst, the denial of what the body craved for, restores us to our place. 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. Jesus was proved to be really man, because he suffered the pains which belong to manhood. Hunger and thirst after righteousness, for you shall be filled. John 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. There are no passages in all the public ministry of Jesus so tender as those which have regard to Jerusalem. We care, however, far more for the fact that he went forth carrying his cross upon his shoulders. "Women, behold thy son!" 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. "The sea is his, and he made it," and all fountains and springs are of his digging. Will your thoroughfares be thronged? 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. IV. Think of the millions in this dark world! The world has in former days counted it God's service to kill the saints. _Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. John 19:28 . 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. He wants you brother, he wants you, dear sister, he longs to have you wholly to himself. He would have sacrificed himself to save his countrymen, so heartily did he desire their eternal welfare. 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. 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." For several Sabbath mornings my mind has been directed into subjects which I might fitly call the deep things of God. It is not fit that he should live." "'Twere you my sins, my cruel sins, His chief tormentors were; Each of my grimes became a nail, And unbelief the spear. It is done. 29. Do not forget, also, that you bear this cross in partnership. Remember that, and expect to suffer. Let all your love be his. Know ye not, beloved, for I speak to those who know the Lord, that ye are crucified together with Christ? Next Saturday all eyes will be fixed on a great Prince who shall ride through our streets with his Royal Bride. You have blessed company; your path is marked with footprints of your Lord. You are not, therefore, so poor as he. 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." O souls, burdened with sin, rest ye here, and resting live. 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. wherein we see the Son of man in the gentleness of a son caring for his bereaved mother. 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. By contrast, the Christian faith is built on the . If not, bestir yourselves at once. The sufferings of Christ should make us weep over those who have brought that blood upon their heads. May God deliver you! His most fruitful years of ministry were at the New Park Street and later the Metropolitan Tabernacle pulpit in London. The high places of earth's worship and honor are not for us. 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. I do not know how far it was from Pilate's house to the Mount of Doom. Angels cannot suffer thirst. 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. 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. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. I have already told you that such was our Lord's mystical desire; let it be ours also. This is man's treatment of his Saviour. The Lord bless you, for Jesus' own sake. Let the sympathy of Christ, then, be fully believed in and deeply appreciated, since he said, "I thirst." 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. In that cry there is reconciliation to God. Coming fresh from the country, not knowing what was going on, he joined with the mob, and they made him carry the cross. 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. 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. Brother, thirst I pray you to have your workpeople saved. Although Simon carried Christ's cross, he did not volunteer to do it, but they compelled 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. 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!" This hint only. Glorious stoop of our exalted Head! Oh! 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. III. 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. 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." The cup of which thou art made to drink, though it be very bitter, bears the mark of his lips about its brim. 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'? John 19:3. You have been ill, and you have been parched with fever as he was, and then you too have gasped out "I thirst." The great Surety says, "I thirst," because he is placed in the sinner's stead, and he must therefore undergo the penalty of sin for the ungodly. 1. Save your tears for them; Christ asks them not in sympathy for himself. 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. Beloved, there is now upon our Master, and there always has been, a thirst after the love of his people. May the Holy Spirit often lead us to glean therein. Fathers and confessors, preachers and divines have delighted to dwell upon every syllable of these matchless cries. Oh! There have been times, and the days may come again, when faithfulness to Christ has entailed exclusion from what is called "society." Commentary on John 19:31-37 (Read John 19:31-37) A trial was made whether Jesus was dead. How they led him forth we do not know. But what shall be your cry when you shall say, "Good God! He came to save, and man denied him hospitality: at the first there was no room for him at the inn, and at the last there was not one cool cup of water for him to drink; but when he thirsted they gave him vinegar to drink. Have you prayed for your fellow men? Let each of us say "Tis all my business here below To cry, Behold the Lamb!" John 1:30-31. "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do" is the first. John 19:16 . 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. And yet, though he was Lord of all he had so fully taken upon himself the form of a servant and was so perfectly made in the likeness of sinful flesh, that he cried with fainting voice, "I thirst." I will give you one of his thirsty prayers "Father, I will that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory." The utterance of "I thirst" brought out A TYPE OF MAN'S TREATMENT OF HIS LORD. 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. There are more unlikely things than that you will be dead before next Sunday. London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. Beloved, if our Master said, "I thirst," do we expect every day to drink of streams from Lebanon? 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. We shall by the assistance of the Holy Spirit try to regard these words of our Saviour in a five-fold light. It was a thirst such as none of us have ever known, for not yet has the death dew condensed upon our brows. The reed was no mere rush from the brook, it was of a stouter kind, of which easterns often make walkingstaves, the blows were cruel as well as insulting; and the crown was not of straw but thorn, hence it produced pain as well as pictured scorn. No longer sink below the brim; But overflow, and pour me down A living and life-giving stream.". Pilate, as we reminded you, scourged our Savior according to the common custom of Roman courts. Then comes the "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Jesus said, "I thirst," and this is the complaint of a man. good God! 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. 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. H. 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