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Bearing upon his back the sin of all his people, the offering goes without the camp. Our first parents plucked forbidden fruit, and by eating slew the race. 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. 1. Read Joo 15:7 bible commentary from Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible by Charles Haddon Spurgeon FREE on BiblePortal.com 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. 29. Brother, thirst to have your children save. March 1st, 1863 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). Can they be compared to generous wine? 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. Here is the safety of the believer in the hour of his departure, and his instant admission into the presence of his Lord. Hark how their loud voices demand that he should be hastened to execution! "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. We all know that a different dress will often raise a doubt about the identity of an individual; but lo! May the Holy Ghost help us to hear a fourth tuning of the dolorous music, "I thirst." I do not know how far it was from Pilate's house to the Mount of Doom. I cannot roll up into one word all the mass of sorrows which met upon the head of Christ who died for us, therefore it is impossible for me to tell you what streams, what oceans of grief must roll over your spirit if you die as you now are. So were the streets of Jerusalem; for great multitudes followed him. You have blessed company; your path is marked with footprints of your Lord. "And they took Jesus, and led him away." Our Lord Jesus came forth, willing to be exposed to their scorn. (6) John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the sour wine, He said, " It is finished! "And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes," vinegar, and not wine; sourness, and not sweetness. I think, beloved friends, that the cry of "I thirst" was THE MYSTICAL EXPRESSION OF THE DESIRE OF HIS HEART "I thirst." As you look at the cross upon his shoulders does it represent your sin? Have you repented of sin? "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. Complain not, then. There are more unlikely things than that you will be dead before next Sunday. 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. "Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, and touch not the unclean thing." 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. He must love, it is his nature. Let me add, that when we look at the sufferings of Christ, we ought to sorrow deeply for the souls of all unregenerate men and women. The Redeemer's cry of "I thirst" is a solemn lesson of patience to his afflicted. Christ was spit upon with shame; sinner, what shame will be yours! The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. The Lord bless you, for Jesus' own sake. I have shown you, believer, your position; let me now show you your service. The last word but one, "It is finished." What knocks he for? We know from experience that the present effect of sin in every man who indulges in it is thirst of soul. Thirst is no royal grief, but an evil of universal manhood; Jesus is brother to the poorest and most humble of our race. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. The utterance of "I thirst" brought out A TYPE OF MAN'S TREATMENT OF HIS LORD. A refined and heavenly appetite, a craving for our Lord. Therefore while he thirsts give him to drink this day. 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. IV. 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. 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. Then came, "Women, behold thy son!" Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 19 John 19:1-16 John 19:1. That is very possible; Christ may have carried the heavier end, against the transverse beam, and Simon may have borne the lighter end. 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. He pitied the sufferer, but he thought so little of him that he joined in the voice of scorn. John 19:1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. He also knew well the terrible joy that comes only through suffering as he lived quite afflicted (both by illness and slander). 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." why hast thou forsaken me?" 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." Add to Cart. 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. 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. There are many other ways in which these words might be read, and they would be found to be all full of instruction. See, brethren, here is a picture of what we may expect from men if we are faithful to our Master. We read, "The soldiers also mocked him, offering him vinegar." 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." John and Herod 1549 - Good News for Thirsty Souls 1550 - The Unspeakable Gift 1551 - Today! It is so with each one of you? John 19:16 . Take up your cross, and go without the camp, following your Lord, even until death. John 1 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries; John 1:12 Multiple Older Commentaries on this verse; . Know ye not, beloved, for I speak to those who know the Lord, that ye are crucified together with Christ? The next time we are in pain or are suffering depression of spirit we will remember that our Lord understands it all, for he has had practical, personal experience of it. Scripture provides a wealth . 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. If not, may that picture of Christ fainting in the streets lead you to do so this morning. 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. 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." He must love his chosen whom he has once begun to love, for he is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. 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. She craved full flagons of love though she was already overpowered by it. 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? 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. There are no passages in all the public ministry of Jesus so tender as those which have regard to Jerusalem. Neither in torture of body nor in sadness of heart are we deserted by our Lord; his line is parallel with ours. 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. 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. Sister, thirst for the salvation of your class, thirst for the redemption of your family, thirst for the conversion of your husband. Here you see how the mortal flesh had to share in the agony of the inward spirit. 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. And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and they put on Him a purple robe. See, it has been blackened with bruises, and stained with the shameful spittle of them that derided him. Is not this a fertile field of thought? You and I have nothing else to preach. It is the opinion of some commentators that Simon only carried one end of the cross, and not the whole of it. Then I will thirst with him and not complain, I will suffer with him and not murmur." 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. Let all your love be his. But ye ask me where is the spouse, the king's daughter fair and beautiful? John 19 Commentary John chapter 19 commentary Bible study. 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!" 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. I invite your attention to CHRIST AS LED FORTH. Every word, therefore, you see teaches us some grand fundamental doctrine of our blessed faith. Trust in the Son of God and you shall never die. He is indeed "Immanuel, God with us" everywhere. Largest collection of Spurgeon resources online, including a complete 63 volume set of sermons, audio sermons, books, and quotes. (1-3) Jesus enters the garden, followed by Judas and his troops. _Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. 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. 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. John Chapter 19 - In-depth, verse-by-verse commentary and Bible study of John chapter 19 in plain English. I invite you to meditate upon the true humanity of our Lord very reverently, and very lovingly. 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. So he was thirsting then. What doth he say? The mind of man is like the daughters of the horseleech, which cry for ever, "Give, give." Well might the Master say, "Weep not for me, but for yourselves." Appetite was the door of sin, and therefore in that point our Lord was put to pain. These are awful words, but they are not mine; they are the very words of God in Scripture. 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. 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 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. But what shall be your cry when you shall say, "Good God! Volume 19, Sermons 1089-1149 (1873) Hide. Commentary on John 19:31-37 (Read John 19:31-37) A trial was made whether Jesus was dead. Angels cannot suffer thirst. The soldiery mocked and insulted him in every way that cruelty and scorn could devise. 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. But my Prince is hated without a cause. Cheerfully accept this burden, ye servants of the Lord. 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." He thirsted for water doubtless, but his soul was thirsty in a higher sense; indeed, he seems only to have spoken that the Scriptures might be fulfilled as to the offering him vinegar. Next Saturday all eyes will be fixed on a great Prince who shall ride through our streets with his Royal Bride. There is a fulness of meaning in each utterance which no man shall be able fully to bring forth, and when combined they make up a vast deep of thought, which no human line can fathom. Next Saturday all eyes will be fixed on a great Prince who shall ride through our streets with his Royal Bride. By contrast, the Christian faith is built on the . 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. He who stood in our stead has finished all his work, and now his spirit comes back to the Father, and he brings us with him. It seems to me very wonderful that this "I thirst" should be, as it were, the clearance of it all. You do suffer. No sufferings of ours have anything to do with the atonement of sin. But such is not the truthful estimate of man according to the Scriptures: there man is a fallen creature, with a carnal mind which cannot be reconciled to God; a worse than brutish creature, rendering evil for good, and treating his God with vile ingratitude. 1089 - The Man Greatly Beloved . Did we not do so years ago before we knew him? John 19:3. 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. "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." 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. The arrow which has lately pierced thee, my brother, was first stained with his blood. Beloved, let us thirst for the souls of our fellow-men. 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. Our glorious Samson had been fighting our foes; heaps upon heaps he had slain his thousands, and now like Samson he was sore athirst. 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. Let us magnify and bless our Redeemer's name. 1. "I thirst," ay, this is my soul's word with her Lord. And yet, though he was Lord of all he had so fully taken upon himself the form of a servant and was so perfectly made in the likeness of sinful flesh, that he cried with fainting voice, "I thirst." He is thirsty still, you see, for our poor love, and surely we cannot deny it to him. Hail, everlasting King in heaven, thou dost admit to thy paradise whomsoever thou wilt! 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. The sufferings of Christ should make us weep over those who have brought that blood upon their heads. ye Christian men, who dream of trimming your sails to the wind, who seek to win the world's favor, I do beseech you cease from a course so perilous. As for yourselves, thirst after perfection. When our Lord cried, "Eloi, Eloi," and afterwards said, "I thirst," the persons around the cross said, "Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him," mocking him; and, according to Mark, he who gave the vinegar uttered much the same words. In the same song he speaks of his church, and says, "The roof of thy mouth is as the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak." John preached a sacrificial Saviour, a sin-bearing Saviour, a sin-atoning Saviour. Your noble Prince is preparing for his marriage: mine is hastening to his doom. London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. This is man's treatment of his Saviour. Are you so frozen at heart that not a cup of cold water can be melted for Jesus? The Church must suffer, that the gospel may be spread by her means. After our Lord Jesus Christ had been formally condemned by Pilate, our text tells us he was led away. In that cry there is reconciliation to God. They are these Weep not because the Savior bled, but because your sins made him bleed. Oh! Our great hero, the destroyer of Death, bearded the lion in his den, slew the monster in his own castle, and dragged the dragon captive from his own den. According to modern thought man is a very fine and noble creature, struggling to become better. He saw its streets flowing like bloody rivers; he saw the temple naming up to heaven; he marked the walls loaded with Jewish captives crucified by command of Titus; he saw the city razed to the ground and sown with salt, and he said, "Weep not for me, but for yourselves and for your children, for the day shall come when ye shall say to the rocks, Hide us, and to the mountains, Fall upon us." " And having said this, He breathed His last. Will your Prince be decorated with honors? Did not the prophecies say that man would give to his incarnate God gall to eat and vinegar to drink? 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. What learn we here as we see Christ led forth? That man is a fool and deserves no pity, who purposely excites the disgust of other people. (John 19:11) Jesus answered, . John 19:28 . "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do" is the first. Oh! You have seen Jesus led away by his enemies; so shall you be dragged away by fiends to the place appointed for you. 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." 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. 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. 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 lictors executed their cruel office upon his shoulders with their rods and scourges, until the stripes had reached the full number. Fix your hearts upon some unsaved one, and thirst until he is saved. Perhaps, dear sister, you carry about with you a gnawing disease which eats at your heart, but Jesus took our sicknesses, and his cup was more bitter than yours. Now, I am not sure that we ought to blame ourselves for this. The great agony of being forsaken by God was over, and he felt faint when the strain was withdrawn. Beloved, can you say he carried your sin? It was a thirst such as none of us have ever known, for not yet has the death dew condensed upon our brows. Then they said, "Hail, King of the Jews!" And they struck Him with their hands. That thirst was caused, perhaps, in part by the loss of blood, and by the fever created by the irritation caused by his four grievous wounds. Let me show what I think he meant. Take up your cross daily and follow him. Conceal your religion? 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. . You must consider Jesus, and not yourself; turn your eye to Christ, the great substitute for sinners, but never dream of trusting in yourselves. 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. You may die so, you may die now. 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. II. 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. If you will look, there is the mark of his blood-red shoulder upon that heavy cross. How they led him forth we do not know. 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. 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 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. 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. They put on him his own clothes that the multitudes might discern him to be the same man, the very man who had professed to be the Messias. 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!" The high places of earth's worship and honor are not for us. Some of you will not be baptized because you think people will say, "He is a professor; how holy he ought to be." Beware of rendering him homage and dishonouring his name at the same time. Mark you, the ransom of men was all paid by Christ; that was redemption by price. Certainly it is so with you; you do but carry the light end of the cross; Christ bore the heavier end. 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. In the multitude there was a sparse sprinkling of tender-hearted women, probably those who had been healed, or whose children had been blessed by him. 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." They take matters very gently; they think it unnecessary to be soldiers of the cross. Your Prince is surrounded by a multitude of friends; hark how they joyously welcome him! I believe there was a tenderness in Christ's heart to the Jew of a special character. 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. 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. 'Tis his cross, and he goes before you as a shepherd goes before his sheep. No, no; we must not make a cross of our own. sinner, if God hides his face from Christ, how much less will he spare you! 1 So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. As these seven sayings were so faithfully recorded, we do not wonder that they have frequently been the subject of devout meditation. He died in less time than persons crucified commonly did. To-day I invite your attention to another Prince, marching in another fashion through his metropolis. 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! And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. 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. And they asked him, What then? 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. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. 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." We ought not to forget the Jews. For his sake we may rejoice in self-denials, and accept Christ and a crust as all we desire between here and heaven. 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." We can never forget the painful scenes of which we have been witness, when we have watched the dissolving of the human frame. In the fourth place, one or two words upon CHRIST'S FELLOW-SUFFERERS. 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. 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. 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. 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 Public ministry of Jesus so tender as those which have regard to Jerusalem the public ministry Jesus. To blame ourselves for this commentary and Bible study of John Gill was over and! Not, beloved, can you say he carried your sin of love though she was overpowered! 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