We do not know what may have been the color of alimony face, but it was most likely black. Today! "I thirst" meant that his heart was thirsting to save men. 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. Some of these were persons of considerable rank; many of them had ministered to him of their substance; amidst the din and howling of the crowd, and the noise of the soldiery, they raised an exceeding loud and bitter cry, like Rachel weeping for her children, who would not be comforted, because they were not. Let this mind be in you also. Christians, will you refuse to be cross-bearers for Christ? It is not sorrow over Rome, but Jerusalem. 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. Did he not tell his disciples, "I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished?" "His way was much rougher and darker than mine; Did Christ, my Lord, suffer, and shall I repine?". Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 19 John 19:1-16 John 19:1. 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!" 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. In that cry there is reconciliation to God. 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. Lloyd-Jones opens John 19:31-37 to answer that very question. 1089 - The Man Greatly Beloved . "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." In the Lord of Hosts, who shows his power in the sufferings of Christ and of his Church. Next Saturday all eyes will be fixed on a great Prince who shall ride through our streets with his Royal Bride. Do you not remember how that thirst of his was strong in the old days of the prophet? 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. The most careless eye discerns it. 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. 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. Amid all the anguish of his spirit his last words prove him to have remained fully self-possessed, true to his forgiving nature, true to his kingly office, true to his filial relationship, true to his God, true to his love of the written word, true to his glorious work, and true to his faith in his Father. A new edition of Spurgeon's classic devotional using the ESV. Simon was an African; he came from Cyrene. 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." . 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." 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. 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. It seems to me very wonderful that this "I thirst" should be, as it were, the clearance of it all. "Wist ye not," said he, while yet a boy, "that I must be about my Father's business?" The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel, they cannot spare him the agonies of dying on the cross, they will therefore remit the labor of carrying it. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. Oh, shame that men should find so much applause for Princes and none for the King of kings. 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. He is thirsty still, you see, for our poor love, and surely we cannot deny it to him. Can you help feeling how very near Jesus is to us when his lips must be moistened with a sponge, and he must be so dependent upon others as to ask drink from their hand? London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. Includes cross references, questions, verse by verse commentary, outline, and applications on John chapter 19 for small groups. Then they said, "Hail, King of the Jews!" And they struck Him with their hands. As he commends his spirit into the Father's hand, so does he bring all believers nigh to God, and henceforth we are in the hand of the Father, who is greater than all, and none shall pluck us thence. Coming fresh from the country, not knowing what was going on, he joined with the mob, and they made him carry the cross. " And He bowed His head, and gave up His spirit. Your Prince is surrounded by a multitude of friends; hark how they joyously welcome him! To-day I invite your attention to another Prince, marching in another fashion through his metropolis. Perhaps they are your children, the objects of your fondest love, with no interest in Christ, without God and without hope in the world! The spear broke up the very fountains of life; no human body could survive such a wound. Here we behold his human soul in anguish, his inmost heart overwhelmed by the withdrawing of Jehovah's face, and made to cry out as if in perplexity and amazement. 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. Conceal your religion? When you are molested for your piety; when your religion brings the trial of cruel mockings upon you; then remember, it is not your cross, it is Christ's cross; and how delightful is it to carry the cross of our Lord Jesus? Next Saturday all eyes will be fixed on a great Prince who shall ride through our streets with his Royal Bride. Alas, man is the slave and the dupe of Satan, and a black-hearted traitor to his God. 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. _Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. Today! Do not let the picture vanish till you have satisfied yourselves once for all that Christ was here the substitute for you. "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. He also knew well the terrible joy that comes only through suffering as he lived quite afflicted (both by illness and slander). wherein we see the Son of man in the gentleness of a son caring for his bereaved mother. The woes which broke the Savior's heart must crush theirs. 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. 1 So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. Glorious stoop of our exalted Head! Fathers and confessors, preachers and divines have delighted to dwell upon every syllable of these matchless cries. I think, beloved friends, that the cry of "I thirst" was THE MYSTICAL EXPRESSION OF THE DESIRE OF HIS HEART "I thirst." We read, "The soldiers also mocked him, offering him vinegar." He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. He wants you brother, he wants you, dear sister, he longs to have you wholly to himself. What a cataract of immortal souls dashes downwards to the pit every hour! We ought not to forget the Jews. He must love his chosen whom he has once begun to love, for he is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. 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?". The high places of earth's worship and honor are not for us. 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. A refined and heavenly appetite, a craving for our Lord. I invite your attention to CHRIST AS LED FORTH. They prefer a ceremonial pompous and gaudy; the swell of music, the glitter of costly garments, the parade of learning all these must minister grandeur to the world's religion, and thus shut out the simple followers of the Lamb. May the Holy Ghost work in you the complete pattern of Christ crucified, and to him shall be praise for ever and ever. It showed that he had laid down his life of himself. There are some who in company hold their tongues, and never say a good word for Christ. "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." Though Simon had to bear the cross for a very little while, it gave him lasting honor. After preaching his first sermon at the age of 16, he became pastor of the church in Waterbeach at the age of 17. "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." John 19:1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. Mark you, the ransom of men was all paid by Christ; that was redemption by price. But power is wanted to dash down those idols, to overcome the hosts of error; where is it to be found? Do not forget, also, that you bear this cross in partnership. Weep not for him, but for these. 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. There can be no shadow of doubt but that our Lord was really crucified, and no one substituted for him. I am not the One anointed of God to save mankind. John 1:21. Can they be compared to generous wine? I have now a third picture to present to you CHRIST AND HIS MOURNERS. We ought all to have a longing for conversions. Yes, he loves to be with his people; they are the garden where he walks for refreshment, and their love, their graces, are the milk and wine which he delights to drink. The nails were fastened in the most sensitive parts of the body, and the wounds were widened as the weight of his body dragged the nails through his blessed flesh, and tore his tender nerves. He believed, as a Roman in gods many. Oh, wondrous substitution of the just for the unjust, of God for man, of the perfect Christ for us guilty, hell-deserving rebels. Commentators like Thomas Manton and John Calvin are represented in this series. Cheerfully accept this burden, ye servants of the Lord. Do we not see here the truth of that which was set forth in shadow by the scape-goat? 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. It was a thirst such as none of us have ever known, for not yet has the death dew condensed upon our brows. 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. Amen. The Church must suffer, that the gospel may be spread by her means. 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. Here is the safety of the believer in the hour of his departure, and his instant admission into the presence of his Lord. Know ye not, beloved, for I speak to those who know the Lord, that ye are crucified together with Christ? "'Twere you my sins, my cruel sins, His chief tormentors were; Each of my grimes became a nail, And unbelief the spear. You and I have nothing else to preach. 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. The utterance of "I thirst" brought out A TYPE OF MAN'S TREATMENT OF HIS LORD. It is the opinion of some commentators that Simon only carried one end of the cross, and not the whole of it. Let us now gaze for awhile upon CHRIST CARRYING HIS CROSS. Usually the crier went before with an announcement such as this, "This is Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews, who for making himself a King, and stirring up the people, has been condemned to die." " And having said this, He breathed His last. 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. 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. It was the common place of death. That man is a fool and deserves no pity, who purposely excites the disgust of other people. He is exiled from their friendship, too. I have touched that point very lightly because I want a little more time to dwell upon a fourth view of this scene. Every word, therefore, you see teaches us some grand fundamental doctrine of our blessed faith. 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. John 19:7-8. Of the many benefits we have in learning from Paul, a few stand out:1. He poureth out the streams that run among the hills, the torrents which rush adown the mountains, and the flowing rivers which enrich the plains. Here is the forgiveness of sin free forgiveness in answer to the Saviour's plea. You have blessed company; your path is marked with footprints of your Lord. "When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost." John 19:30. The Lord bless you, for Jesus' own sake. I. Thirst is no royal grief, but an evil of universal manhood; Jesus is brother to the poorest and most humble of our race. He would have sacrificed himself to save his countrymen, so heartily did he desire their eternal welfare. I am glad the world expects much from us, and watches us narrowly. 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. As you look at the cross upon his shoulders does it represent your sin? For his sake we may rejoice in self-denials, and accept Christ and a crust as all we desire between here and heaven. He was innocent, and yet he thirsted; shall we marvel if guilty ones are now and then chastened? May the Holy Ghost help us to hear a fourth tuning of the dolorous music, "I thirst." He is not allowed to worship with them. If you will look, there is the mark of his blood-red shoulder upon that heavy cross. Shall carnal appetites be indulged and bodies pampered when Jesus cried :I thirst"? For several Sabbath mornings my mind has been directed into subjects which I might fitly call the deep things of God. 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." 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." It was a confirmation of the Scripture testimony with regard to man's natural enmity to God. When they had mocked him they pulled off the purple garment he had worn, this rough operation would cause much pain. 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. 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. 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. III. We used to melt when we heard about his sufferings, but we did not turn from our sins. 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. II. Therefore while he thirsts give him to drink this day. For the thousands of eyes which shall gaze upon the youthful Prince, I offer the gaze of men and angels. Beeke, Joel R. & Thompson, Nick. Acts 19 Acts 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. Oh! He died in less time than persons crucified commonly did. 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. May we not despise our loaded table while he is neglected? We shall by the assistance of the Holy Spirit try to regard these words of our Saviour in a five-fold light. Such a greeting had the Lord of glory, but alas, it was not the shout of welcome, but the yell of "Away with him! 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." 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. Alas, my brethren, I cannot say much on the score of man's cruelty to our Lord without touching myself and you. Here you see how the mortal flesh had to share in the agony of the inward spirit. 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. He must love, it is his nature. ", 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. 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. John 1 19-51 Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 1:19-51 John 1:19. You may die so, you may die now. This is man's treatment of his Saviour. The Christian faith and motives for Christian worship are based on the certainty of facts. 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. 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. How harshly grate the cruel syllables, "Crucify him! For a biblical, reformed, and historic collection of commentaries, the Geneva Series is unsurpassed. 1. The Holy Spirit took special care that each of the sacred utterances should be fittingly recorded. But how vast was the disparity! 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. And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and they put on Him a purple robe. Let each of us say "Tis all my business here below To cry, Behold the Lamb!" John 1:30-31. This was intended at once to proclaim his guilt and intimate his doom. John Chapter 19 - In-depth, verse-by-verse commentary and Bible study of John chapter 19 in plain English. Let all your love be his. Now we see Jesus brought before the priests and rulers, who pronounce him guilty; God himself imputes our sins to him; he was made sin for us; and, as the substitute for our guilt, bearing our sin upon his shoulders for that cross was a sort of representation in wood of our guilt and doom we see the great Scape-goat led away by the appointed officers of justice. 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. We see how the Holy Spirit wants us to pray. (6) John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the sour wine, He said, " It is finished! You carry the cross after him. She craved full flagons of love though she was already overpowered by it. 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!" 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. O to be enlarged in soul so as to take deeper draughts of his sweet love, for our heart cannot have enough. Oh! Others think that Simon carried the whole of the cross. Are you so frozen at heart that not a cup of cold water can be melted for Jesus? (John 19:11) Jesus answered, . If not, may that picture of Christ fainting in the streets lead you to do so this morning. 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. 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. The sufferings of Christ should make us weep over those who have brought that blood upon their heads. "The sea is his, and he made it," and all fountains and springs are of his digging. May the Holy Spirit often lead us to glean therein. 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." Say not that the comparison is strained, for in a moment I will withdraw it and present the contrast. He knew once how to turn water into wine, and in matchless love he has often turned our sour drink-offerings into something sweet to himself, though in themselves, methinks, they have been the juice of sour grapes, sharp enough to set his teeth on edge. We all know that a different dress will often raise a doubt about the identity of an individual; but lo! 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. 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! 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. By contrast, the Christian faith is built on the . They are these Weep not because the Savior bled, but because your sins made him bleed. II. Your noble Prince is preparing for his marriage: mine is hastening to his doom. 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. What was he looking for from his vineyard and its winepress? 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. Certain philosophers have said that they love the pursuit of truth even better than the knowledge of truth. 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." 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? Who among us would not willingly pour out his soul unto death if he might but give refreshment to the Lord? Jesus was deserted of God; and if he, who was only imputedly a sinner, was deserted, how much more shall you be? And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. John 18:19-40 - Glory on Trial A. Did I not describe last Sabbath the knotted scourges which fell upon the Saviours back? It is done. Then came, "Women, behold thy son!" But ye ask me where is the spouse, the king's daughter fair and beautiful? I believe there was a tenderness in Christ's heart to the Jew of a special character. Our text is the shortest of all the words of Calvary; it stands as two words in our language "I thirst," but in the Greek it is only one. Metaphorically understood, thirst is dissatisfaction, the craving of the mind for something which it has not, but which it pines for. Jesus was proved to be really man, because he suffered the pains which belong to manhood. Think of the millions in this dark world! Volume 19, Sermons 1089-1149 (1873) Hide. And they asked him, What then? "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. Some of you will not be baptized because you think people will say, "He is a professor; how holy he ought to be." C.H. Ah, that I cannot tell, except his own great love. 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. Beloved, there is now upon our Master, and there always has been, a thirst after the love of his people. 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! 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. 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." Let the sympathy of Christ, then, be fully believed in and deeply appreciated, since he said, "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. There have been times, and the days may come again, when faithfulness to Christ has entailed exclusion from what is called "society." 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. They place the cross upon Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country. "After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst." O my hearers, beware of praising Jesus and denying his atoning sacrifice. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. We care, however, far more for the fact that he went forth carrying his cross upon his shoulders. He can receive vinegar, but not lukewarm love. I cannot think that natural thirst was all he felt. Pilate, as we reminded you, scourged our Savior according to the common custom of Roman courts. We will now take the text in a third way, and may the Spirit of God instruct us once again. Save your tears for them; Christ asks them not in sympathy for himself. John 19:4-5. 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. 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