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. Did not the high-priest bring the scape-goat, and put both his hands upon its head, confessing the sins of the people, that thus those sins might be laid upon the goat? The last word but one, "It is finished." 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. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible. If we weep for the sufferings of Christ in the same way as we lament the sufferings of another man, our emotions will be only natural, and may work no good. Our first parents plucked forbidden fruit, and by eating slew the race. He is indeed "Immanuel, God with us" everywhere. These are awful words, but they are not mine; they are the very words of God in Scripture. "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do" is the first. 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. Will ye raise a clamor of tumultuous shouting? No, no; we must not make a cross of our own. And what makes him love us so? Well might the Master say, "Weep not for me, but for yourselves." There are some who in company hold their tongues, and never say a good word for Christ. 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. First, we shall look upon them as THE ENSIGN OF HIS TRUE HUMANITY. May the Holy Ghost work in you the complete pattern of Christ crucified, and to him shall be praise for ever and ever. 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. It came from the parched lips of the Divine Victim towards the close of his agony, and after the darkness which endured from the sixth to the ninth hour. The Lord bless you, for Jesus' own sake. But power is wanted to dash down those idols, to overcome the hosts of error; where is it to be found? "We, whose proneness to forget Thy dear love, on Olivet Bathed thy brow with bloody sweat; "We whose sins, with awful power, Like a cloud did o'er thee lower, In that God-excluding hour; "We, who still, in thought and dead, Often hold the bitter reed To thee, in thy time of need.". It was the common place of death. Rutherford says, "Whenever Christ gives us a cross, he cries, 'Halves, my love.'" "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. O my hearers, beware of praising Jesus and denying his atoning sacrifice. 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. John 19:1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. Let me show what I think he meant. 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. I think that Roman soldier meant well, at least well for a rough warrior with his little light and knowledge. Conceal your religion? Then came, "Women, behold thy son!" 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. Did we not do so years ago before we knew him? Then they said, "Hail, King of the Jews!" And they struck Him with their hands. Home; Origin; Birth; John; Acts; About; JOHN 19 COMMENTARY . 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. I invite you to meditate upon the true humanity of our Lord very reverently, and very lovingly. Beloved, let us thirst for the souls of our fellow-men. 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. In the Lord of Hosts, who shows his power in the sufferings of Christ and of his Church. The words, "I thirst," are a common voice in death chambers. 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." 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. 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!" First, they teach and confirm many of the doctrines of our holy faith. 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. 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." Thou wast still straightened till the last pang was felt and the last word spoken to complete to full redemption, and hence thy cry, "I thirst." It is calculated that one soul passes from time into eternity every time the clock ticks! The more manifestly there shall be a great gulf between the Church and the world, the better shall it be for both; the better for the world, for it shall be thereby warned; the better for the Church, for it shall be thereby preserved. Save your tears for them; Christ asks them not in sympathy for himself. The utterance of "I thirst" brought out A TYPE OF MAN'S TREATMENT OF HIS LORD. 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. He had been all night in agony, he had spent the early morning at the hall of Caiaphas, he had been hurried, as I described to you last Sunday, from Caiaphas to Pilate, from Pilate to Herod, and from Herod back again to Pilate; he had, therefore, but little strength left, and you will not wonder that by-and-bye we find him staggering beneath his load, and that another is called to bear it with him. The woes which broke the Savior's heart must crush theirs. Oh! In that cry there is reconciliation to God. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. Oh I raise the question, and be not satisfied unless you can answer it most positively in the affirmative. 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. Fathers and confessors, preachers and divines have delighted to dwell upon every syllable of these matchless cries. London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. Universal manhood, left to itself, rejects, crucifies, and mocks the Christ of God. What was he looking for from his vineyard and its winepress? We do not read that they removed the crown of thorns, and therefore it is most probable, though not absolutely certain, that our Savior wore it along the Via Dolorosa, and also bore it upon his head when he was fastened to the cross. Barrabas may go free; the thief and the murderer may be spared; but for Christ there is no word, but "Away with such a fellow from the earth! Our Lord Jesus came forth, willing to be exposed to their scorn. Here, as everywhere else, we are constrained to say of our Lord, "Never man spake like this man." We are to reckon upon all this, and should the worst befal us, it is to be no strange thing to us. Jesus, being a man, escaped none of the ills which are allotted to man in death. See, brethren, where sin begins, and mark that there it ends. This is man's treatment of his Saviour. (John 19:11) Jesus answered, . After preaching his first sermon at the age of 16, he became pastor of the church in Waterbeach at the age of 17. By contrast, the Christian faith is built on the . 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. Perhaps they are your children, the objects of your fondest love, with no interest in Christ, without God and without hope in the world! "Women, behold thy son!" The mind of man is like the daughters of the horseleech, which cry for ever, "Give, give." 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. Think of that! Exposition of the Gospel according to John by Hendriksen, William, 1900-1982 (1953) 526 pages 19 ratings 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. 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. Shall the servant be above his Master, or the disciple above his Lord? 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." 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. Say not that the comparison is strained, for in a moment I will withdraw it and present the contrast. 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. For a biblical, reformed, and historic collection of commentaries, the Geneva Series is unsurpassed. Your Prince is surrounded by a multitude of friends; hark how they joyously welcome him! "And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes," vinegar, and not wine; sourness, and not sweetness. No longer sink below the brim; But overflow, and pour me down A living and life-giving stream.". 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. "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 19 John 19:1-16 John 19:1. 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. Let us now gaze for awhile upon CHRIST CARRYING HIS CROSS. He goes forth, then, bearing his cross. There are more unlikely things than that you will be dead before next Sunday. The world has in former days counted it God's service to kill the saints. And they asked him, What then? Oh! In the fourth place, one or two words upon CHRIST'S FELLOW-SUFFERERS. 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. The great agony of being forsaken by God was over, and he felt faint when the strain was withdrawn. 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? 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. III. 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. It is the empty cup placed under the flowing stream; the penniless hand held out for heavenly alms." . Remember, dear friends, that what Christ suffered for us, these unregenerate ones must suffer for themselves, except they put their trust in Christ. Bearing upon his back the sin of all his people, the offering goes without the camp. There can be no shadow of doubt but that our Lord was really crucified, and no one substituted for him. The spear broke up the very fountains of life; no human body could survive such a wound. 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. So he was thirsting then. Nay more; he is banished from their society, as if he were a leper whose breath would be infectious whose presence would scatter plague. There are many other ways in which these words might be read, and they would be found to be all full of instruction. 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. It is the opinion of some commentators that Simon only carried one end of the cross, and not the whole of it. 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. Brother, thirst to have your children save. There is bread upon your table to-day, and there will be at least a cup of cold water to refresh you. He wants you brother, he wants you, dear sister, he longs to have you wholly to himself. 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. How harshly grate the cruel syllables, "Crucify him! According to modern thought man is a very fine and noble creature, struggling to become better. As these seven sayings were so faithfully recorded, we do not wonder that they have frequently been the subject of devout meditation. For him they have no tolerance. I show unto you a more excellent way. We shall by the assistance of the Holy Spirit try to regard these words of our Saviour in a five-fold light. Rutherford used words somewhat to this effect, "I thirst for my Lord and this is joy; a joy which no man taketh from me. So were the streets of Jerusalem; for great multitudes followed him. How they led him forth we do not know. Let us magnify and bless our Redeemer's name. John 1 19-51 Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 1:19-51 John 1:19. Do not forget, also, that you bear this cross in partnership. 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 You may die so, you may die now. This was the act too of man at his best, when he is moved to pity; for it seems clear that he who lifted up the wet sponge to the Redeemer's lips, did it in compassion. Next Saturday all eyes will be fixed on a great Prince who shall ride through our streets with his Royal Bride. 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. Your noble Prince is preparing for his marriage: mine is hastening to his doom. If you will look, there is the mark of his blood-red shoulder upon that heavy cross. Romanists pretend to know; in fact they know the very spot where Veronica wiped the blessed face with her handkerchief, and found his likeness impressed upon it; we also know very well where that was not done; in fact they know the very spot where Jesus fainted, and if you go to Jerusalem you can see all these different places if you only carry enough credulity with you; but the fact is the city has been so razed, and burned, and ploughed, that there is little chance of distinguishing any of these positions, with the exception, it may be, of Mount Calvary, which being outside the walls may possibly still remain. Today! 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. 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. As not a bone of him shall be broken, so not a word shall be lost. Jesus paused, and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me; but weep for yourselves and for your children." Metaphorically understood, thirst is dissatisfaction, the craving of the mind for something which it has not, but which it pines for. 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." wherein we see the Son of man in the gentleness of a son caring for his bereaved mother. As Christ went through the streets, a great multitude looked on. The power to suffer for another, the capacity to be self-denying even to an extreme to accomplish some great work for God this is a thing to be sought after, and must be gained before our work is done, and in this Jesus is before us our example and our strength. They are created in the minds of men. "After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst." 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. We will now take the text in a third way, and may the Spirit of God instruct us once again. 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. That man is a fool and deserves no pity, who purposely excites the disgust of other people. Then the goat was led away by a fit man into the wilderness, and it carried away the sins of the people, so that if they were sought for, they could not be found.

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