May we not despise our loaded table while he is neglected? You must consider Jesus, and not yourself; turn your eye to Christ, the great substitute for sinners, but never dream of trusting in yourselves. He did not spare his Son the stripes. And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. We see how the Holy Spirit wants us to pray. That man is a fool and deserves no pity, who purposely excites the disgust of other people. What but for the juice of the vine that he might be refreshed? Will ye raise a clamor of tumultuous shouting? After our Lord Jesus Christ had been formally condemned by Pilate, our text tells us he was led away. Holy Scripture remains the basis of our faith, established by every word and act of our Redeemer. Alas, man is the slave and the dupe of Satan, and a black-hearted traitor to his God. Those pictures which represent our Lord as wearing the crown of thorns upon the tree have therefore at least some scriptural warrant. Oh! Then comes the "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Some of you will! Oh! Now Christ standing in the stead of the ungodly suffers thirst as a type of his enduring the result of sin. He was innocent, and yet he thirsted; shall we marvel if guilty ones are now and then chastened? May we not be half ashamed of our pleasures when he says, "I thirst"? I do not think we should seek after needless persecution. Even now to a large extent the true Christian is like a Pariah, lower than the lowest caste, in the judgment of some. In the former cry, as he opened Paradise, you saw the Son of God; now you see him who was verily and truly born of a women, made under the law; and under the law you see him still, for he honours his mother and cares for her in the last article of death. IV. As you look at the cross upon his shoulders does it represent your sin? The Christian faith and motives for Christian worship are based on the certainty of facts. Here is the forgiveness of sin free forgiveness in answer to the Saviour's plea. 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." Mark then, Christian, Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. It showed that he had laid down his life of himself. What learn we here as we see Christ led forth? Well, beloved, the cross we have to carry is only for a little while at most. 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. We do not know what may have been the color of alimony face, but it was most likely black. London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. Was not the Redeemer led thither to aggravate his shame? I differ from them greatly, but I will say this, that next to the actual enjoyment of my Lord's presence I love to hunger and to thirst after him. 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. Today! 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. Alas poor African, thou hast been compelled to carry the cross even until now. Angels cannot suffer thirst. So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. I have already told you that such was our Lord's mystical desire; let it be ours also. Let there be nothing but your religion to object to, and then if that offends them let them be offended, it is a cross which you must carry joyfully. Trust in the Son of God and you shall never die. 1. Did I not describe last Sabbath the knotted scourges which fell upon the Saviours back? Betrayal and arrest in the garden. 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." 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?". Oh! The world has in former days counted it God's service to kill the saints. We will now take the text in a third way, and may the Spirit of God instruct us once again. It began with the mouth of appetite, when it was sinfully gratified, and it ends when a kindred appetite is graciously denied. (1-3) Jesus enters the garden, followed by Judas and his troops. 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. If you will look, there is the mark of his blood-red shoulder upon that heavy cross. John 19:3. John 1 19-51 Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 1:19-51 John 1:19. John 19 Commentary John chapter 19 commentary Bible study. How truly man he is; he is, indeed, "bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh," for he bears our infirmities. 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. Oh, shame that men should find so much applause for Princes and none for the King of kings. How near akin the thirsty Saviour is to us; let us love him more and more. Spurgeon left this earth for his heavenly hope in 1892. Do not forget, also, that you bear this cross in partnership. We may well remember our faults this day. Dear fountain of delight unknown! I cannot say that it is short and sweet, for, alas, it was bitterness itself to our Lord Jesus; and yet out of its bitterness I trust there will come great sweetness to us. and they smote him with their hands. the people saw him in the street, not arrayed in the purple robe, but wearing his garment without seam, woven from the top throughout, the common smock-frock, in fact, of the countrymen of Palestine, and they said at once, "Yes, 'tis he, the man who healed the sick, and raised the dead; the mighty teacher who was wont to sit upon the mountain-top, or stand in the temple courts and preach with authority, and not as the Scribes." The last word but one, "It is finished." "The sea is his, and he made it," and all fountains and springs are of his digging. "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. We shall by the assistance of the Holy Spirit try to regard these words of our Saviour in a five-fold light. Can they be compared to generous wine? Shall it ever be a hardship to be denied the satisfying draught when he said, "I thirst." Pilate, as we reminded you, scourged our Savior according to the common custom of Roman courts. There can be no shadow of doubt but that our Lord was really crucified, and no one substituted for him. Hail, ye despised children of the sun, ye follow first after the King in the march of woe. 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. Universal manhood, left to itself, rejects, crucifies, and mocks the Christ of God. 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. 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. II. Volume 19, Sermons 1089-1149 (1873) Hide. 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. Next time your fevered lips murmur "I am very thirsty," you may say to yourself, "Those are sacred words, for my Lord spake in that fashion." 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. Believing this, let us tenderly feel how very near akin to us our Lord Jesus has become. 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. 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 last expiring word in which he commended his spirit to his Father, is the note of acceptance for himself and for us all. 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. The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. 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. "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. . 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. What whips of steel for you, what knots of burning wire for you, when conscience shall smite you, when the law shall scourge you with its ten-thonged whip! Lectures to My Students - Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1889 Lessons from the Apostle Paul's Prayers - Charles Spurgeon 2018-02-19 Why study and pray the prayers of the Apostle Paul? Take up your cross, and go without the camp, following your Lord, even until death. Beloved, let us thirst for the souls of our fellow-men. You have seen Jesus led away by his enemies; so shall you be dragged away by fiends to the place appointed for you. Remember that, and expect to suffer. I am glad the world expects much from us, and watches us narrowly. Though Simon had to bear the cross for a very little while, it gave him lasting honor. 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. What doth he say? 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. We used to melt when we heard about his sufferings, but we did not turn from our sins. The sharpness of that sentence no exposition can fully disclose to us: it is keen as the very edge and point of the sword which pierced his heart. 1 So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. Oh I raise the question, and be not satisfied unless you can answer it most positively in the affirmative. John 19:28 . "Women, behold thy son!" 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. Next Saturday all eyes will be fixed on a great Prince who shall ride through our streets with his Royal Bride. There was nothing behind in the price, but there is something behind in the manifested power, and we must continue to fill up that measure of revealed power, carrying each one of us the cross with Christ, till the last shame shall have been poured upon his cause, and he shall reign for ever and ever. You have been ill, and you have been parched with fever as he was, and then you too have gasped out "I thirst." As for yourselves, thirst after perfection. 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. It is almost done, thou Christ of God; thou hast almost saved thy people; there remaineth but one thing more, that thou shouldst actually die, and hence thy strong desire to come to the end and complete thy labour. Some of you will not be baptized because you think people will say, "He is a professor; how holy he ought to be." They place the cross upon Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country. Do not let the picture vanish till you have satisfied yourselves once for all that Christ was here the substitute for you. 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. He cried, ere he bowed the head which he had held erect amid all his conflict, as one who never yielded, "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit." John 19:16 . 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. Beware of rendering him homage and dishonouring his name at the same time. Next Saturday all eyes will be fixed on a great Prince who shall ride through our streets with his Royal Bride. Beloved, there is now upon our Master, and there always has been, a thirst after the love of his people. John 19:28 J.R. Thomson This is both the shortest of all the dying utterances of Jesus, and it is the one which is most closely related to himself. 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. 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. "Weep for yourselves," says Christ, "rather than for me." 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. Conservative, but not too much depth. 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. How has it been with you? 'Tis his cross, and he goes before you as a shepherd goes before his sheep. The last of his last words is also taken from the Scriptures, and shows where his mind was feeding. And well they may; the son of such noble parents deserves a nation's love. We see in Simon's carrying the cross a picture of what the Church is to do throughout all generations. It is so with each one of you? "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." Borrowed from his lips it well suiteth my mouth. 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. It was one of Death's castles; here he stored his gloomiest trophies; he was the grim lord of that stronghold. 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. We ought all to have a longing for conversions. I cannot think that natural thirst was all he felt. 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. Fathers and confessors, preachers and divines have delighted to dwell upon every syllable of these matchless cries. 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. 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. Commentators like Thomas Manton and John Calvin are represented in this series. are they not more like sharp vinegar? 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. 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. Of the many benefits we have in learning from Paul, a few stand out:1. Brother, thirst I pray you to have your workpeople saved. "It is finished" is the last word but one, and there you see the perfected Saviour, the Captain of our salvation, who has completed the undertaking upon which he had entered, finished transgression, made an end of sin, and brought in ever lasting righteousness. Well, then, what means this cry, "I thirst," but this, that we should thirst too? This was the homage which the Son of God received from men; harmless and gentle, he came here with no purpose but that of doing good, and this is how mankind treated him. It seems to me very wonderful that this "I thirst" should be, as it were, the clearance of it all. 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." Ah, that I cannot tell, except his own great love. Home; Origin; Birth; John; Acts; About; JOHN 19 COMMENTARY . 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. "To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise." Let patience have her perfect work. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. 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. 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 do not know how far it was from Pilate's house to the Mount of Doom. No longer sink below the brim; But overflow, and pour me down A living and life-giving stream.". The soldiery mocked and insulted him in every way that cruelty and scorn could devise. Oh! 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. good God! As Spurgeon puts it "Faith is described as 'receiving' Jesus. _Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. Let all your love be his. 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. Calvary was like our Old Bailey; it was the usual place of execution for the district. Did not the prophecies say that man would give to his incarnate God gall to eat and vinegar to drink? Brother, thirst to have your children save. I am ashamed of some professed Christians, heartily ashamed of them! 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." 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. 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. As Christ went through the streets, a great multitude looked on. Inductive Bible study on John 19. May the Holy Spirit often lead us to glean therein. If we be true to our Master we shall soon lose the friendship of the world. what a black thought crosses our mind! And they asked him, What then? 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. "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was born in Essex, England. Oh! 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. But how vast was the disparity! He wants you brother, he wants you, dear sister, he longs to have you wholly to himself. Jesus was deserted of God; and if he, who was only imputedly a sinner, was deserted, how much more shall you be? 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. Have you prayed for your fellow men? 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. I am not the One anointed of God to save mankind. John 1:21. "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.". How harshly grate the cruel syllables, "Crucify him! 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." Then came, "Women, behold thy son!" According to modern thought man is a very fine and noble creature, struggling to become better. They are these Weep not because the Savior bled, but because your sins made him bleed. Hast thou laid thy hand upon his head, confessed thy sin, and trusted in him? Our Lord in his death-cries, as in all else, was perfection itself. He died in less time than persons crucified commonly did. Nay more; he is banished from their society, as if he were a leper whose breath would be infectious whose presence would scatter plague. 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. (John 19:11) Jesus answered, . Let us magnify and bless our Redeemer's name. We know from experience that the present effect of sin in every man who indulges in it is thirst of soul. Here, as everywhere else, we are constrained to say of our Lord, "Never man spake like this man." 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." If not, may that picture of Christ fainting in the streets lead you to do so this morning. Bearing upon his back the sin of all his people, the offering goes without the camp. That is very possible; Christ may have carried the heavier end, against the transverse beam, and Simon may have borne the lighter end. 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. But my Prince is hated without a cause. And what makes him love us so? Jesus was proved to be really man, because he suffered the pains which belong to manhood. 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. We would fain lift thy name on high in grateful remembrance of the depths to which thou didst descend! Say not that the comparison is strained, for in a moment I will withdraw it and present the contrast. Mine is adorned with garments crimsoned with his own blood. Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 19 John 19:1-16 John 19:1. Behold, my King is not without his crown alas, a crown of thorns set with ruby drops of blood! Here is the safety of the believer in the hour of his departure, and his instant admission into the presence of his Lord. 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. He pitied the sufferer, but he thought so little of him that he joined in the voice of scorn. Your noble Prince is preparing for his marriage: mine is hastening to his doom. 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. A Christian living to indulge the base appetites of a brute beast, to eat and to drink almost to gluttony and drunkenness, is utterly unworthy of the name. Come, bring him your warm heart, and let him drink from that purified chalice as much as he wills. 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!". What was he looking for from his vineyard and its winepress? Christ comes forth from Pilate's hall with the cumbrous wood upon his shoulder, but through weariness he travels slowly, and his enemies urgent for his death, and half afraid, from his emaciated appearance, that he may die before he reaches the place of execution, allow another to carry his burden. 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. They take matters very gently; they think it unnecessary to be soldiers of the cross. "'Twere you my sins, my cruel sins, His chief tormentors were; Each of my grimes became a nail, And unbelief the spear. So he was thirsting then. For him they have no tolerance. Beloved, can you say he carried your sin? 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