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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. Are you lukewarm? O Lord Jesus, we love thee and we worship thee! In the fourth place, one or two words upon CHRIST'S FELLOW-SUFFERERS. 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 Among other things methinks he meant this "If I, the innocent substitute for sinners, suffer thus, what will be done when the sinner himself the dry tree whose sins are his own, and not merely imputed to him, shall fall into the hands of an angry God." The spear broke up the very fountains of life; no human body could survive such a wound. 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. No longer sink below the brim; But overflow, and pour me down A living and life-giving stream.". 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! As you look at the cross upon his shoulders does it represent your sin? Oh! " And having said this, He breathed His last. Alas poor African, thou hast been compelled to carry the cross even until now. After our Lord Jesus Christ had been formally condemned by Pilate, our text tells us he was led away. How great the love which led him to such a condescension as this! The Lord bless you, for Jesus' own sake. 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. 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. Did not the prophecies say that man would give to his incarnate God gall to eat and vinegar to drink? 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." Oh! You do suffer. See, brethren, here is a picture of what we may expect from men if we are faithful to our Master. 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. Though Simon had to bear the cross for a very little while, it gave him lasting honor. John 19:16 . You may die so, you may die now. Universal manhood, left to itself, rejects, crucifies, and mocks the Christ of God. 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." This is what the Apostle meant when he said, "I fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the Church." "I thirst," ay, this is my soul's word with her Lord. Rutherford used words somewhat to this effect, "I thirst for my Lord and this is joy; a joy which no man taketh from me. It does not often happen that five or six thousand people meet together twice; it never does, I suppose; the scythe of death must cut some of you down before my voice shall warn you again! 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. 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." And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and they put on Him a purple robe. Was not the Redeemer led thither to aggravate his shame? God forbid! Certain philosophers have said that they love the pursuit of truth even better than the knowledge of truth. Jesus said, "I thirst," and this is the complaint of a man. For the thousands of eyes which shall gaze upon the youthful Prince, I offer the gaze of men and angels. According to modern thought man is a very fine and noble creature, struggling to become better. 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. Cover it with a cloak? Take up your cross, and go without the camp, following your Lord, even until death. We ought all to have a longing for conversions. Conservative, but not too much depth. 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." 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. 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. "Weep for yourselves," says Christ, "rather than for me." 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. 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." "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. Some of you will not be baptized because you think people will say, "He is a professor; how holy he ought to be." 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. why hast thou forsaken me?" 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. There can be no shadow of doubt but that our Lord was really crucified, and no one substituted for him. There is one way by which you can tell whether he carried your sin or not. We used to melt when we heard about his sufferings, but we did not turn from our sins. "I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk; eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved." "And they took Jesus, and led him away." 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. 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. We all know that a different dress will often raise a doubt about the identity of an individual; but lo! One word: transformation. I have touched that point very lightly because I want a little more time to dwell upon a fourth view of this scene. Amen. Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was born in Essex, England. 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. Think of that! Oh! Now Christ standing in the stead of the ungodly suffers thirst as a type of his enduring the result of sin. I think, beloved friends, that the cry of "I thirst" was THE MYSTICAL EXPRESSION OF THE DESIRE OF HIS HEART "I thirst." It was most fitting that every word of our Lord upon the cross should be gathered up and preserved. Our Lord is the Maker of the ocean and the waters that are above the firmament: it is his hand that stays or opens the bottles of heaven, and sendeth rain upon the evil and upon the good. Yet his language teaches us not to worship her, for he calls her "woman," but to honor him in whom his direst agony thought of her needs and griefs, as he also thinks of all his people, for these are his mother and sister and brother. My Lord is not altogether without his espoused one. 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. According to the sacred canticle of love, in the fifth chapter of the Song of Songs, we learn that when he drank in those olden times it was in the garden of his church that he was refreshed. 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." Brother, thirst to have your children save. Add to Cart. 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. And well they may; the son of such noble parents deserves a nation's love. Your Prince is surrounded by a multitude of friends; hark how they joyously welcome him! I am glad the world expects much from us, and watches us narrowly. There is the complete justification of the believer, since the work by which he is accepted is fully accomplished. 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. Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 19 John 19:1-16 John 19:1. Trust in the Son of God and you shall never die. 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. 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. Godly working-men, should your employers or your fellow-workers frown upon you; wives, should your husbands threaten to cast you out, remember, without the camp was Jesus' place, and without the camp is yours. John, the gospel of faith by Harrison, Everett Falconer, 1902- from Everyman's Bible Commentary series. You are not, therefore, so poor as he. 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. The woes which broke the Savior's heart must crush theirs. Now, I am not sure that we ought to blame ourselves for this. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh." 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." What learn we here as we see Christ led forth? He thirsts to bless you and to receive your grateful love in return; he thirsts to see you looking with believing eye to his fulness, and holding out your emptiness that he may supply it. Then they said, "Hail, King of the Jews!" And they struck Him with their hands. 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. Simon was an African; he came from Cyrene. For several Sabbath mornings my mind has been directed into subjects which I might fitly call the deep things of God. 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. 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. Have we not often given him vinegar to drink? May the Holy Ghost work in you the complete pattern of Christ crucified, and to him shall be praise for ever and ever. 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. Exposition of the Gospel according to John by Hendriksen, William, 1900-1982 (1953) 526 pages 19 ratings 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. And what makes him love us so? 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. The extreme tension produced a burning feverishness. John 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. Here, as everywhere else, we are constrained to say of our Lord, "Never man spake like this man." Did he not tell his disciples, "I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished?" III. Well, then, what means this cry, "I thirst," but this, that we should thirst too? IV. "To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise." 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'? You see there the multitude are leading him forth from the temple. Are you so frozen at heart that not a cup of cold water can be melted for Jesus? Call to mind his complaint in the fifth chapter of Isaiah, "Now will I sing to my well beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. Of the many benefits we have in learning from Paul, a few stand out:1. Borrowed from his lips it well suiteth my mouth. They are these Weep not because the Savior bled, but because your sins made him bleed. It is not fit that he should live." Next Saturday all eyes will be fixed on a great Prince who shall ride through our streets with his Royal Bride. He is indeed "Immanuel, God with us" everywhere. Such a greeting had the Lord of glory, but alas, it was not the shout of welcome, but the yell of "Away with him! Did I not describe last Sabbath the knotted scourges which fell upon the Saviours back? 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." . 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. Is not this a fertile field of thought? "His way was much rougher and darker than mine; Did Christ, my Lord, suffer, and shall I repine?". 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. 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. 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. He also knew well the terrible joy that comes only through suffering as he lived quite afflicted (both by illness and slander). When they had mocked him they pulled off the purple garment he had worn, this rough operation would cause much pain. 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? Nay more; he is banished from their society, as if he were a leper whose breath would be infectious whose presence would scatter plague. First, they teach and confirm many of the doctrines of our holy faith. V. Lastly, the cry of "I thirst" is to us THE PATTERN OF OUR DEATH WITH HIM. Let patience have her perfect work. 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. I cannot think that natural thirst was all he felt. (1-3) Jesus enters the garden, followed by Judas and his troops. What but for the juice of the vine that he might be refreshed? His great love makes him thirst to have us much nearer than we are; he will never be satisfied till all his redeemed are beyond gunshot of thee enemy. Read Joo 15:7 bible commentary from Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible by Charles Haddon Spurgeon FREE on BiblePortal.com 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. The Christian faith and motives for Christian worship are based on the certainty of facts. "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. 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." Let this mind be in you also. Thirst is no royal grief, but an evil of universal manhood; Jesus is brother to the poorest and most humble of our race. O my hearers, beware of praising Jesus and denying his atoning sacrifice. Lloyd-Jones opens John 19:31-37 to answer that very question. He pitied the sufferer, but he thought so little of him that he joined in the voice of scorn. 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. Charles Haddon Spurgeon December 1, 1861 Scripture: John 19:30 From: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 7 It is Finished! Some of you will! Spurgeon left this earth for his heavenly hope in 1892. Come let us pour out full flagons, until his joy is fulfilled in us. 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. No sufferings of ours have anything to do with the atonement of sin. Today! He died in less time than persons crucified commonly did. Christ was spit upon with shame; sinner, what shame will be yours! What, then, dear friends, should be the sorrows excited by a view of Christ's sufferings? Complain not, then. Hast thou laid thy hand upon his head, confessed thy sin, and trusted in him? John preached a sacrificial Saviour, a sin-bearing Saviour, a sin-atoning Saviour. 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? O souls, burdened with sin, rest ye here, and resting live. But my Prince is hated without a cause. Do not forget, also, that you bear this cross in partnership. (1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. All nations gathered about my Lord, both great and mean men clustered around his person. This is man's treatment of his Saviour. 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. Shall it ever be a hardship to be denied the satisfying draught when he said, "I thirst." 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. Hunger and thirst after righteousness, for you shall be filled. 1 So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. 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. He said, "I thirst," in order that one might bring him drink, even as you have wished to have a cooling draught handed to you when you could not help yourself. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. 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. One would wish to be as a spouse, who, when she had already been feasting in the banqueting-house, and had found his fruit sweet to her taste, so that she was overjoyed, yet cried out, "Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love." 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." Scripture provides a wealth . Although Simon carried Christ's cross, he did not volunteer to do it, but they compelled him. Oh, shame that men should find so much applause for Princes and none for the King of kings. 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. You and I have nothing else to preach. See, brethren, where sin begins, and mark that there it ends. He is thirsty still, you see, for our poor love, and surely we cannot deny it to him. The great agony of being forsaken by God was over, and he felt faint when the strain was withdrawn. I claim for the procession of my Lord an interest superior to the pageant you are now so anxiously expecting. Glorious stoop of our exalted Head! Dear fountain of delight unknown! 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. 2 And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, . Pilate, as we reminded you, scourged our Savior according to the common custom of Roman courts. Even now to a large extent the true Christian is like a Pariah, lower than the lowest caste, in the judgment of some. 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. "I thirst" meant that his heart was thirsting to save men. The high places of earth's worship and honor are not for us. "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. 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. 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. Thirst is a common-place misery, such as may happen to peasants or beggars; it is a real pain, and not a thing of a fancy or a nightmare of dreamland. 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. They force him without the walls, and are not satisfied till they have rid themselves of his obnoxious presence. 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. Will your Prince be sumptuously arrayed? The last of his last words is also taken from the Scriptures, and shows where his mind was feeding. 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. Do not let the picture vanish till you have satisfied yourselves once for all that Christ was here the substitute for you. 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. ( John 19:1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. I show unto you a more excellent way. 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." I think that Roman soldier meant well, at least well for a rough warrior with his little light and knowledge. We may therefore come before him, with all the rest of our race, when God subdues them to repentance by his love, and look on him whom we have pierced, and mourn for him as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. (6) John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the sour wine, He said, " It is finished! You have, then, no true sympathy for Christ if you have not an earnest sympathy with those who would win souls for Christ. Then came, "Women, behold thy son!" Thoughtful men have drawn a wealth of meaning from them, and in so doing have arranged them into different groups, and placed them under several heads. 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. Today! "Women, behold thy son!" (John 19:11) Jesus answered, . It seems to me very wonderful that this "I thirst" should be, as it were, the clearance of it all. 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. There are no passages in all the public ministry of Jesus so tender as those which have regard to Jerusalem. Take up your cross daily and follow him. 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 hint only. 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