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. For several Sabbath mornings my mind has been directed into subjects which I might fitly call the deep things of God. III. "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." 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. Let this mind be in you also. "To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise." The woes which broke the Savior's heart must crush theirs. Jesus was proved to be really man, because he suffered the pains which belong to manhood. The flood of his grief has passed the high-water mark, and began to be assuaged. 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." We shall by the assistance of the Holy Spirit try to regard these words of our Saviour in a five-fold light. March 1st, 1863 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). Brother, thirst to have your children save. We do not know what may have been the color of alimony face, but it was most likely black. " And having said this, He breathed His last. They take matters very gently; they think it unnecessary to be soldiers of the cross. I. They force him without the walls, and are not satisfied till they have rid themselves of his obnoxious presence. So were the streets of Jerusalem; for great multitudes followed him. 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. "Women, behold thy son!" "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. 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." You are not, therefore, so poor as he. (1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. There is one way by which you can tell whether he carried your sin or not. You and I have nothing else to preach. Volume 19, Sermons 1089-1149 (1873) Hide. Was not the Redeemer led thither to aggravate his shame? And said, Hail, King of the Jews! 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. Pilate, as we reminded you, scourged our Savior according to the common custom of Roman courts. The soldiery mocked and insulted him in every way that cruelty and scorn could devise. No longer sink below the brim; But overflow, and pour me down A living and life-giving stream.". But power is wanted to dash down those idols, to overcome the hosts of error; where is it to be found? 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." I have already told you that such was our Lord's mystical desire; let it be ours also. Christ was spit upon with shame; sinner, what shame will be yours! 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 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. Certainly it is so with you; you do but carry the light end of the cross; Christ bore the heavier end. 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. 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! 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 . He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. 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. 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. He calls for that: will you not give it to him? C.H. This is man's treatment of his Saviour. 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. Commentators like Thomas Manton and John Calvin are represented in this series. Cheerfully accept this burden, ye servants of the Lord. We do not thirst after the old manner wherein we were bitterly afflicted, for he hath said, "He that drinketh of this water shall never thirst:" but now we covet a new thirst. 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. V. Lastly, the cry of "I thirst" is to us THE PATTERN OF OUR DEATH WITH HIM. 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. You have blessed company; your path is marked with footprints of your Lord. John 19 Commentary John chapter 19 commentary Bible study. Let me show what I think he meant. 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. 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. What doth he say? ", When a brother makes confession of his transgressions, when on his knees before God he humbles himself with many tears, I am sure the Lord thinks far more of the tears of repentance than he would do of the mere drops of human sympathy. He did not spare his Son the stripes. ( John 19:1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. 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." 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. As Christ went through the streets, a great multitude looked on. 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. How truly man he is; he is, indeed, "bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh," for he bears our infirmities. Mark then, Christian, Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. 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. And said, Hail, King of the Jews!_ See how man at his best mingles admiration of the Saviour's person with scorn of his claims; writing books to hold him up as an example and at the same moment rejecting his deity; admitting that he was a wonderful man, but denying his most sacred mission; extolling his ethical teaching and then trampling on his blood: thus giving him drink, but that drink vinegar. 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." Jesus is formally condemned to crucifixion, but before he is led away he is given over to the Praetorian guards that those rough legionaries may insult him. Grant me only thus much of likeness: we have here a Prince with his bride, bearing his banner, and wearing his royal robes, traversing the streets of his own city, surrounded by a throng who shout aloud, and a multitude who gaze with interest profound. Let patience have her perfect work. Dear fountain of delight unknown! He believed, as a Roman in gods many. 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. Well, beloved, the cross we have to carry is only for a little while at most. The spear broke up the very fountains of life; no human body could survive such a wound. 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. With "I thirst" the evil is destroyed and receives its expiation. What knocks he for? 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. How has it been with you? What if the bread be dry, what if the medicine be nauseous; yet for his thirst there was no relief but gall and vinegar, and dare we complain? II. "After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst." May the Holy Ghost help us to hear a fourth tuning of the dolorous music, "I thirst." 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. and they smote him with their hands. "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" Oh! away with him." John 19:1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. 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. 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. Here you see how the mortal flesh had to share in the agony of the inward spirit. Either Christ must die for me, or else I must die for myself the second death; if he did not carry the curse for me, then on me must it rest for ever and ever. As Spurgeon puts it "Faith is described as 'receiving' Jesus. I claim for the procession of my Lord an interest superior to the pageant you are now so anxiously expecting. 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." Will your thoroughfares be thronged? O to be enlarged in soul so as to take deeper draughts of his sweet love, for our heart cannot have enough. III. 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 think, beloved friends, that the cry of "I thirst" was THE MYSTICAL EXPRESSION OF THE DESIRE OF HIS HEART "I thirst." Appetite was the door of sin, and therefore in that point our Lord was put to pain. Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 19 John 19:1-16 John 19:1. He is thirsty still, you see, for our poor love, and surely we cannot deny it to him. "I thirst," ay, this is my soul's word with her Lord. 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. "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" John 19:28 . 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. Oh I raise the question, and be not satisfied unless you can answer it most positively in the affirmative. Did he not tell his disciples, "I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished?" "Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, and touch not the unclean thing." Then thy sin lies not on thee; not one single ounce or drachma of it lies on thee; it has all been transferred by blessed imputation to Christ, and he bears it on his shoulder in the form of yonder heavy cross. Believing this, let us tenderly feel how very near akin to us our Lord Jesus has become. Partner with StudyLight.org as God uses us to make a difference for those displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine. Though bitter to him in the speaking it will be sweet to us in the hearing, so sweet that all the bitterness of our trials shall be forgotten as we remember the vinegar and gall of which he drank. Of the many benefits we have in learning from Paul, a few stand out:1. We can never forget the painful scenes of which we have been witness, when we have watched the dissolving of the human frame. Here, as everywhere else, we are constrained to say of our Lord, "Never man spake like this man." It is the opinion of some commentators that Simon only carried one end of the cross, and not the whole of it. 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. Some of you will not be baptized because you think people will say, "He is a professor; how holy he ought to be." There is the complete justification of the believer, since the work by which he is accepted is fully accomplished. "He that taketh not up his cross and followeth not after me," says Christ, "is not worthy of me." Remember, dear friends, that what Christ suffered for us, these unregenerate ones must suffer for themselves, except they put their trust in Christ. Your Prince is surrounded by a multitude of friends; hark how they joyously welcome him! I cannot give you more than a mere taste of this rich subject, but I have been most struck with two ways of regarding our Lord's last words. 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. Fix your hearts upon some unsaved one, and thirst until he is saved. And now, brethren, our blessed Lord has at this time a thirst for communion with each one of you who are his people, not because you can do him good, but because he can do you good. He also knew well the terrible joy that comes only through suffering as he lived quite afflicted (both by illness and slander). Nor is this all. 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. See, it has been blackened with bruises, and stained with the shameful spittle of them that derided him. Let us now gaze for awhile upon CHRIST CARRYING HIS CROSS. 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. 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. 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. 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. May we not be half ashamed of our pleasures when he says, "I thirst"? That man is a fool and deserves no pity, who purposely excites the disgust of other people. 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. Rutherford used words somewhat to this effect, "I thirst for my Lord and this is joy; a joy which no man taketh from me. Next Saturday all eyes will be fixed on a great Prince who shall ride through our streets with his Royal Bride. When you are molested for your piety; when your religion brings the trial of cruel mockings upon you; then remember, it is not your cross, it is Christ's cross; and how delightful is it to carry the cross of our Lord Jesus? And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou ? In that cry there is reconciliation to God. 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. They are these Weep not because the Savior bled, but because your sins made him bleed. 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. When they had mocked him they pulled off the purple garment he had worn, this rough operation would cause much pain. Jesus paused, and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me; but weep for yourselves and for your children." And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe. "Weep for yourselves," says Christ, "rather than for me." Betrayal and arrest in the garden. Think of the millions in this dark world! Scripture provides a wealth . Commentary on John 19:31-37 (Read John 19:31-37) A trial was made whether Jesus was dead. 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? It was the common place of death. Come hither, ye lovers of Immanuel, and I will show you this great sight the King of sorrow marching to his throne of grief, the cross. are they not more like sharp vinegar? As you look at the cross upon his shoulders does it represent your sin? 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. 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. Exposition of the Gospel according to John by Hendriksen, William, 1900-1982 (1953) 526 pages 19 ratings 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. 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. It is done. 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. Amen. What but for the juice of the vine that he might be refreshed? This thirst had been on him from the earliest of his earthly days. Beeke, Joel R. & Thompson, Nick. 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?". He is indeed "Immanuel, God with us" everywhere. Next Saturday all eyes will be fixed on a great Prince who shall ride through our streets with his Royal Bride. Spurgeon left this earth for his heavenly hope in 1892. Today! "I thirst" meant that his heart was thirsting to save men. High in the air ye bid your banners wave about the heir of England's throne, but how shall ye rival the banner of the sacred cross, that day for the first time borne among the sons of men. Such a greeting had the Lord of glory, but alas, it was not the shout of welcome, but the yell of "Away with him! 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!" He came to save, and man denied him hospitality: at the first there was no room for him at the inn, and at the last there was not one cool cup of water for him to drink; but when he thirsted they gave him vinegar to drink. 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. 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. 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. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. He can receive vinegar, but not lukewarm love. Let each of us say "Tis all my business here below To cry, Behold the Lamb!" John 1:30-31. It is a blow at the fable of purgatory which strikes it to the heart. Oh! He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it. "Wist ye not," said he, while yet a boy, "that I must be about my Father's business?" 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. 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. Simon was an African; he came from Cyrene. "When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost." John 19:30. 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. She craved full flagons of love though she was already overpowered by it. 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