It is not likely that we shall be able to worship with their worship. The sinful find our conversation distasteful; in our pursuits the carnal have no interest; things dear to us are dross to worldlings, while things precious to them are contemptible to us. What joy, what satisfaotion this will give if we can sing, "My soul looks back to see The burden thou didst bear, When hastening to the accursed tree, And knows her guilt was there!". Let patience have her perfect work. what a black thought crosses our mind! why hast thou forsaken me?" 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." First, they teach and confirm many of the doctrines of our holy faith. Home; Origin; Birth; John; Acts; About; JOHN 19 COMMENTARY . This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. "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." Brother, thirst to have your children save. The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. 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." 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. and they smote him with their hands. But what shall be your cry when you shall say, "Good God! We know from experience that the present effect of sin in every man who indulges in it is thirst of soul. 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. There were two other cross-bearers in the throng; they were malefactors; their crosses were just as heavy as the Lord's, and yet, at least, one of them had no sympathy with him, and his bearing the cross only led to his death, and not to his salvation. He calls for that: will you not give it to him? 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." 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. There are some who in company hold their tongues, and never say a good word for Christ. May the Holy Spirit often lead us to glean therein. C.H. We see in Simon's carrying the cross a picture of what the Church is to do throughout all generations. It was one of Death's castles; here he stored his gloomiest trophies; he was the grim lord of that stronghold. Do we not see here the truth of that which was set forth in shadow by the scape-goat? We may well remember our faults this day. 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. 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? 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." Mine is adorned with garments crimsoned with his own blood. This is man's treatment of his Saviour. "And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes," vinegar, and not wine; sourness, and not sweetness. How near akin the thirsty Saviour is to us; let us love him more and more. What, then, dear friends, should be the sorrows excited by a view of Christ's sufferings? We shall perhaps know it in our measure in our dying hour, but not yet, nor ever so terribly as he did. 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. ( John 19:1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. It is so with each one of you? That man is a fool and deserves no pity, who purposely excites the disgust of other people. "The sea is his, and he made it," and all fountains and springs are of his digging. But further, my brethren; this, I think, is the great lesson from Christ's being slaughtered without the gate of the city let us go forth, therefore, without the camp, bearing his reproach. Are you lukewarm? It is done. I do not think we should seek after needless persecution. 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. May we not be half ashamed of our pleasures when he says, "I thirst"? 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. Metaphorically understood, thirst is dissatisfaction, the craving of the mind for something which it has not, but which it pines for. And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou ? 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." 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. Let me show what I think he meant. Well might the Master say, "Weep not for me, but for yourselves." Here is the safety of the believer in the hour of his departure, and his instant admission into the presence of his Lord. Jesus thirsted, then let us thirst in this dry and thirsty land where no water is. A river of the water of life, pure as crystal, proceedeth to-day out of the throne of God and of the Lamb, and yet once he condescended to say, "I thirst," before his angelic guards, they would surely have emulated the courage of the men of David when they cut their way to the well of Bethlehem that was within the gate, and drew water in jeopardy of their lives. 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. Think of the millions in this dark world! July 2nd, 1882 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892) "I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them." John 17:26 . Our first parents plucked forbidden fruit, and by eating slew the race. Yonder young Prince is ruddy with the bloom of early youth and health; my Master's visage is more marred than that of any man. Even as the hart panteth after the water brooks, our souls would thirst after thee, O God. Largest collection of Spurgeon resources online, including a complete 63 volume set of sermons, audio sermons, books, and quotes. 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. 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. 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. When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid: It shows he was afraid all along the coward the vacillating coward and now a fresh superstition seizes upon him. 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. Cover it with a cloak? No blood but that which He has spilt, no groans but those which came from His heart, no suffering but that which was endured by Him, can ever make a recompense for sin. So he was thirsting then. 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. Scripture provides a wealth . We are to reckon upon all this, and should the worst befal us, it is to be no strange thing to us. And yet he placed himself for our sakes into a position of shame and suffering where none would wait upon him, but when he cried, "I thirst," they gave him vinegar to drink. Neither in torture of body nor in sadness of heart are we deserted by our Lord; his line is parallel with ours. More solemn still is the reflection that according to our Lord's own teaching, thirst will also be the eternal result of sin, for he says concerning the rich glutton, "In hell he lift up his eyes, being in torment," and his prayer, which was denied him, was, "Father Abraham, send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame." 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. Oh! 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. The last expiring word in which he commended his spirit to his Father, is the note of acceptance for himself and for us all. 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. Was not the Redeemer led thither to aggravate his shame? III. Shall carnal appetites be indulged and bodies pampered when Jesus cried :I thirst"? His most fruitful years of ministry were at the New Park Street and later the Metropolitan Tabernacle pulpit in London. 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. 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." He is not allowed to worship with them. For his sake we may rejoice in self-denials, and accept Christ and a crust as all we desire between here and heaven. The Holy Spirit took special care that each of the sacred utterances should be fittingly recorded. Have you repented of sin? We care, however, far more for the fact that he went forth carrying his cross upon his shoulders. He is thirsty still, you see, for our poor love, and surely we cannot deny it to him. I believe there was a tenderness in Christ's heart to the Jew of a special character. 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." "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." Oh! Commentary on John 19:31-37 (Read John 19:31-37) A trial was made whether Jesus was dead. Well, then, what means this cry, "I thirst," but this, that we should thirst too? He loved the Gentile, but still Jerusalem was the city of the Great King. 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! It seems to me very wonderful that this "I thirst" should be, as it were, the clearance of it all. 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. They take matters very gently; they think it unnecessary to be soldiers of the cross. 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. " And He bowed His head, and gave up His spirit. John and Herod 1549 - Good News for Thirsty Souls 1550 - The Unspeakable Gift 1551 - Today! 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. I have already told you that such was our Lord's mystical desire; let it be ours also. 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! For the thousands of eyes which shall gaze upon the youthful Prince, I offer the gaze of men and angels. March 1st, 1863 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). I have touched that point very lightly because I want a little more time to dwell upon a fourth view of this scene. I have shown you, believer, your position; let me now show you your service. He was innocent, and yet he thirsted; shall we marvel if guilty ones are now and then chastened? These are awful words, but they are not mine; they are the very words of God in Scripture. "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" The world has in former days counted it God's service to kill the saints. 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. Coming fresh from the country, not knowing what was going on, he joined with the mob, and they made him carry the cross. Let us magnify and bless our Redeemer's name. Behold, my King is not without his crown alas, a crown of thorns set with ruby drops of blood! I think that Roman soldier meant well, at least well for a rough warrior with his little light and knowledge. II. 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. 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. 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. 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." 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. 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. Conceal your religion? 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 is one way by which you can tell whether he carried your sin or not. Hunger and thirst after righteousness, for you shall be filled. Hast thou laid thy hand upon his head, confessed thy sin, and trusted in him? Beware of rendering him homage and dishonouring his name at the same time. Will your thoroughfares be thronged? Universal manhood, left to itself, rejects, crucifies, and mocks the Christ of God. 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. The spear broke up the very fountains of life; no human body could survive such a wound. Shall the servant be above his Master, or the disciple above his Lord? You may die so, you may die now. It was the common place of death. II. Volume 19, Sermons 1089-1149 (1873) Hide. He goes forth, then, bearing his cross. 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. We would fain lift thy name on high in grateful remembrance of the depths to which thou didst descend! Well, beloved, the cross we have to carry is only for a little while at most. That is very possible; Christ may have carried the heavier end, against the transverse beam, and Simon may have borne the lighter end. Mark you, the ransom of men was all paid by Christ; that was redemption by price. Such a greeting had the Lord of glory, but alas, it was not the shout of welcome, but the yell of "Away with him! Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. Let this mind be in you also. 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. Perhaps they are your children, the objects of your fondest love, with no interest in Christ, without God and without hope in the world! I saw the other day the emblem of a serpent with its tail in its mouth, and if I carry it a little beyond the artist's intention the symbol may set forth appetite swallowing up itself. The Geneva Series of Commentaries include historic commentaries on biblical books written by some of the great theologians in the history of the church. Hark how their loud voices demand that he should be hastened to execution! Take up your cross daily and follow him. "His way was much rougher and darker than mine; Did Christ, my Lord, suffer, and shall I repine?". It was a confirmation of the Scripture testimony with regard to man's natural enmity to God. Inductive Bible study on John 19. "After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst." You have, then, no true sympathy for Christ if you have not an earnest sympathy with those who would win souls for Christ. No man dare call him friend now, or whisper a word of comfort to him. But power is wanted to dash down those idols, to overcome the hosts of error; where is it to be found? "I thirst," is his human body tormented by grievous pain. Some of you will not be baptized because you think people will say, "He is a professor; how holy he ought to be." Jesus is therefore hunted out of the city, beyond the gate, with the will and force of his oven nation, but he journeys not against his own will; even as the lamb goeth as willingly to the shambles as to the meadow, so doth Christ cheerfully take up his cross and go without the camp. There are more unlikely things than that you will be dead before next Sunday. 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. Oh I raise the question, and be not satisfied unless you can answer it most positively in the affirmative. "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. points to the anguish of his soul; "I thirst" expresses in part the torture of his body; and they were both needful, because it is written of the God of justice that he is "able to destroy both soul and body in hell," and the pangs that are due to law are of both kinds, touching both heart and flesh. Secondly, we shall regard these words, "I thirst," as THE TOKEN OF HIS SUFFERING SUBSTITUTION. Fix your hearts upon some unsaved one, and thirst until he is saved. "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." 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. Say not that the comparison is strained, for in a moment I will withdraw it and present the contrast. I fear me, beloved, I fear me that the most of us if we ever do carry it, carry it by compulsion, at least when it first comes on to our shoulders we do not like it, and would fain run from it, but the world compels us to bear Christ's cross. Do you not remember how that thirst of his was strong in the old days of the prophet? Shall it ever be a hardship to be denied the satisfying draught when he said, "I thirst." As you look at the cross upon his shoulders does it represent your sin? . 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. "Weep for yourselves," says Christ, "rather than for me." 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." Glorious stoop of our exalted Head! London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. Next Saturday all eyes will be fixed on a great Prince who shall ride through our streets with his Royal Bride. Read Joo 15:7 bible commentary from Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible by Charles Haddon Spurgeon FREE on BiblePortal.com But how vast was the disparity! Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was born in Essex, England. As for yourselves, thirst after perfection. It showed that he had laid down his life of himself. We all know that a different dress will often raise a doubt about the identity of an individual; but lo! As not a bone of him shall be broken, so not a word shall be lost. 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. 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 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. Hail, everlasting King in heaven, thou dost admit to thy paradise whomsoever thou wilt! The Christian faith and motives for Christian worship are based on the certainty of facts. Those pictures which represent our Lord as wearing the crown of thorns upon the tree have therefore at least some scriptural warrant. We will now take the text in a third way, and may the Spirit of God instruct us once again. "Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, and touch not the unclean thing." Amen. 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. Nay more; he is banished from their society, as if he were a leper whose breath would be infectious whose presence would scatter plague. But my Prince is hated without a cause. Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 19 John 19:1-16 John 19:1. Amen. The voice of sympathy prevailed over the voice of scorn. Weep not for him, but for these. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. Your Prince is surrounded by a multitude of friends; hark how they joyously welcome him! Christ was spit upon with shame; sinner, what shame will be yours! 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. John 19:28 . Then I will thirst with him and not complain, I will suffer with him and not murmur." You must consider Jesus, and not yourself; turn your eye to Christ, the great substitute for sinners, but never dream of trusting in yourselves. All this is a blessed clog upon us, and a means of keeping us more near the Lord. "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. It is the empty cup placed under the flowing stream; the penniless hand held out for heavenly alms." . (1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. 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. The last of his last words is also taken from the Scriptures, and shows where his mind was feeding. Now recollect, if Jesus had not thirsted, every one of us would have thirsted for ever afar off from God, with an impassable gulf between us and heaven. Some of you will! How great the love which led him to such a condescension as this! Have you prayed for your fellow men? 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." I am ashamed of some professed Christians, heartily ashamed of them! 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. Dear friend, if you think that you suffer all that a Christian can suffer; if all God's billows roll over you, yet, remember, there is not one drop of wrath in all your sea of sorrow. The flood of his grief has passed the high-water mark, and began to be assuaged. Oh, shame that men should find so much applause for Princes and none for the King of kings. "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." For him they have no tolerance. IV. Cheerfully accept this burden, ye servants of the Lord. Like the steps of a ladder or the links of a golden chain, there is a mutual dependence and interlinking of each of the cries, so that one leads to another and that to a third. 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." "I thirst," ay, this is my soul's word with her Lord. Those once highly favored people of God who cursed themselves with, "His blood be upon us and upon our children," ought to make us mourn when we think of their present degradation. I wonder he has ever received them, as one marvels why he received this vinegar; and yet he has received them, and smiled upon us for presenting them. Oh! Believing this, let us tenderly feel how very near akin to us our Lord Jesus has become. 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. 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. Beloved, can you say he carried your sin? I have now a third picture to present to you CHRIST AND HIS MOURNERS. 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. 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. Beeke, Joel R. & Thompson, Nick. After our Lord Jesus Christ had been formally condemned by Pilate, our text tells us he was led away. O my hearers, beware of praising Jesus and denying his atoning sacrifice. Our religion is our glory; the Cross of Christ is our honor, and, while not ostentatiously parading it, as the Pharisees do, we ought never to be so cowardly as to conceal it. Think of that! 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." 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. You are not, therefore, so poor as he. Are you so frozen at heart that not a cup of cold water can be melted for Jesus? Today! Pilate, as we reminded you, scourged our Savior according to the common custom of Roman courts. The words, "I thirst," are a common voice in death chambers. By Pilate, our souls would thirst after righteousness, for our poor love, and mocks the Christ God. 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