There are some who in company hold their tongues, and never say a good word for Christ. 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. According to modern thought man is a very fine and noble creature, struggling to become better. Home; Origin; Birth; John; Acts; About; JOHN 19 COMMENTARY . You have, then, no true sympathy for Christ if you have not an earnest sympathy with those who would win souls for Christ. Next Saturday all eyes will be fixed on a great Prince who shall ride through our streets with his Royal Bride. This hint only. Henceforth, also, let us cultivate the spirit of resignation, for we may well rejoice to carry a cross which his shoulders have borne before us. Cheerfully accept this burden, ye servants of the Lord. May the Holy Ghost help us to hear a fourth tuning of the dolorous music, "I thirst." The Via Dolorosa, as the Romanists call it, is a long street at the present time, but it may have been but a few yards. London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. 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. Conceal your religion? The last expiring word in which he commended his spirit to his Father, is the note of acceptance for himself and for us all. "I thirst" meant that his heart was thirsting to save men. 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. 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. He is indeed "Immanuel, God with us" everywhere. 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. No sufferings of ours have anything to do with the atonement of sin. The Geneva Series of Commentaries include historic commentaries on biblical books written by some of the great theologians in the history of the church. He did not spare his Son the stripes. Let me show what I think he meant. 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. We care, however, far more for the fact that he went forth carrying his cross upon his shoulders. We know from experience that the present effect of sin in every man who indulges in it is thirst of soul. Here you see how the mortal flesh had to share in the agony of the inward spirit. 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. "The sea is his, and he made it," and all fountains and springs are of his digging. 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. Who among us would not willingly pour out his soul unto death if he might but give refreshment to the Lord? You may think that this remark is not needed; but I have met with one or two cases where it was required; and I have often said I would preach a sermon for even one person, and, therefore, I make this remark, even though it should rebuke but one. John 19:28 . John 1 19-51 Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 1:19-51 John 1:19. The Redeemer's cry of "I thirst" is a solemn lesson of patience to his afflicted. I have now a third picture to present to you CHRIST AND HIS MOURNERS. The most Scriptural way to describe the sufferings of Christ is not by laboring to excite sympathy through highly-coloured descriptions of his blood and wounds. 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. Perhaps they are your children, the objects of your fondest love, with no interest in Christ, without God and without hope in the world! One would wish to be as a spouse, who, when she had already been feasting in the banqueting-house, and had found his fruit sweet to her taste, so that she was overjoyed, yet cried out, "Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love." Do we not see here the truth of that which was set forth in shadow by the scape-goat? Will ye raise a clamor of tumultuous shouting? 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. Save your tears for them; Christ asks them not in sympathy for himself. The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel, they cannot spare him the agonies of dying on the cross, they will therefore remit the labor of carrying it. There have been times, and the days may come again, when faithfulness to Christ has entailed exclusion from what is called "society." We see how the Holy Spirit wants us to pray. 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. After preaching his first sermon at the age of 16, he became pastor of the church in Waterbeach at the age of 17. Our glorious Samson had been fighting our foes; heaps upon heaps he had slain his thousands, and now like Samson he was sore athirst. I have already told you that such was our Lord's mystical desire; let it be ours also. We see in Simon's carrying the cross a picture of what the Church is to do throughout all generations. 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. I invite you to meditate upon the true humanity of our Lord very reverently, and very lovingly. By contrast, the Christian faith is built on the . He calls for that: will you not give it to him? There is the complete justification of the believer, since the work by which he is accepted is fully accomplished. 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. One word: transformation. But power is wanted to dash down those idols, to overcome the hosts of error; where is it to be found? O to be enlarged in soul so as to take deeper draughts of his sweet love, for our heart cannot have enough. Thus have I tried to spy out a measure of teaching, by using that one glass for the soul's eye, through which we look upon "I thirst" as the ensign of his true humanity. John 19:7-8. We used to melt when we heard about his sufferings, but we did not turn from our sins. Such a greeting had the Lord of glory, but alas, it was not the shout of welcome, but the yell of "Away with him! There is bread upon your table to-day, and there will be at least a cup of cold water to refresh you. Hunger and thirst after righteousness, for you shall be filled. All nations gathered about my Lord, both great and mean men clustered around his person. After our Lord Jesus Christ had been formally condemned by Pilate, our text tells us he was led away. This was intended at once to proclaim his guilt and intimate his doom. Some of those whom we loved very dearly we have seen quite unable to help themselves; the death sweat has been upon them, and this has been one of the marks of their approaching dissolution, that they have been parched with thirst, and could only mutter between their half-closed lips, "Give me to drink." Jesus, being a man, escaped none of the ills which are allotted to man in death. Jesus was deserted of God; and if he, who was only imputedly a sinner, was deserted, how much more shall you be? 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. II. May the Holy Spirit often lead us to glean therein. 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. Now Christ standing in the stead of the ungodly suffers thirst as a type of his enduring the result of sin. I am not the One anointed of God to save mankind. John 1:21. John 1 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries; John 1:12 Multiple Older Commentaries on this verse; . Think, dear friends, there are some in this congregation who as yet have no interest in Jesu's blood, some sitting next to you, your nearest friends who, if they were now to close their eyes in death, would open them in hell! The most careless eye discerns it. I have shown you, believer, your position; let me now show you your service. Hate sin, and heartily loathe it; but thirst to be holy as God is holy, thirst to be like Christ, thirst to bring glory to his sacred name by complete conformity to his will. 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. March 1st, 1863 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). The last of his last words is also taken from the Scriptures, and shows where his mind was feeding. As for yourselves, thirst after perfection. Lloyd-Jones opens John 19:31-37 to answer that very question. If we be true to our Master we shall soon lose the friendship of the world. Mine is adorned with garments crimsoned with his own blood. I suppose that the "I thirst" was uttered softly, so that perhaps only one and another who stood near the cross heard it at all; in contrast with the louder cry of "Lama sabachthani" and the triumphant shout of "It is finished": but that soft, expiring sigh, "I thirst," has ended for us the thirst which else, insatiably fierce, had preyed upon us throughout eternity. 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." 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. Mark you, the ransom of men was all paid by Christ; that was redemption by price. 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. Cover it with a cloak? 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." Jesus took the wrath; Jesus carried the sin; and now all that you endure is but for his sake, that you may be conformed unto his image, and may aid in gathering his people into his family. sinner, if God hides his face from Christ, how much less will he spare you! April 14th, 1878 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). When they had mocked him they pulled off the purple garment he had worn, this rough operation would cause much pain. 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." Oh! "I reckon that these light afflictions, which are but for a moment, are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us." For his sake we may rejoice in self-denials, and accept Christ and a crust as all we desire between here and heaven. This is man's treatment of his Saviour. You see there the multitude are leading him forth from the temple. 1. Let this mind be in you also. The world has in former days counted it God's service to kill the saints. Acts 19 Acts 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. 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. How has it been with you? 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. I am glad the world expects much from us, and watches us narrowly. 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. John preached a sacrificial Saviour, a sin-bearing Saviour, a sin-atoning Saviour. Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 19 John 19:1-16 John 19:1. Even if I may not come at him, yet shall I be full of consolation, for it is heaven to thirst after him, and surely he will never deny a poor soul liberty to admire him, and adore him, and thirst after him." 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. We shall by the assistance of the Holy Spirit try to regard these words of our Saviour in a five-fold light. Have we not often given him vinegar to drink? That impenitent thief went from the cross of his great agony and it was agony indeed to die on a cross he went to that place, to the flames of hell; and you, too, may go from the bed of sickness, and from the abode of poverty, to perdition, quite as readily as from the home of ease and the house of plenty. C.H. 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. "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. Next Saturday all eyes will be fixed on a great Prince who shall ride through our streets with his Royal Bride. For several Sabbath mornings my mind has been directed into subjects which I might fitly call the deep things of God. Do not let us forget the infinite distance between the Lord of glory on his throne and the Crucified dried up with thirst. Jesus thirsted, then let us thirst in this dry and thirsty land where no water is. London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. 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. 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 He bowed His head, and gave up His spirit. 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?". Well, beloved, the cross we have to carry is only for a little while at most. We may well remember our faults this day. John, the gospel of faith by Harrison, Everett Falconer, 1902- from Everyman's Bible Commentary series. God forbid! It showed that he had laid down his life of himself. John 19 Commentary John chapter 19 commentary Bible study. 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. 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. I know he loves to receive from you, because he delights even in a cup of cold water that you give to one of his disciples; how much more will he delight in the giving of your whole self to him? He would have sacrificed himself to save his countrymen, so heartily did he desire their eternal welfare. "Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, and touch not the unclean thing." Did I not describe last Sabbath the knotted scourges which fell upon the Saviours back? Beeke, Joel R. & Thompson, Nick. 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. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. Can they be compared to generous wine? John 19:1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. A strong emphasis in Spurgeon's preaching was God's grace and sovereignty over man's helpless state. "Deliver him to the tormentors," was the word of the king in the parable; it shall be fulfilled to you "Depart ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels." The ceremonial of the Jewish religion denies him any participation in its pomps; the priests condemn him never again to tread the hallowed floors, never again to look upon the consecrated altars in the place of his people's worship. The woes which broke the Savior's heart must crush theirs. That man is a fool and deserves no pity, who purposely excites the disgust of other people. Others think that Simon carried the whole of the cross. what a black thought crosses our mind! Remember that, and expect to suffer. Add to Cart. He pitied the sufferer, but he thought so little of him that he joined in the voice of scorn. Beloved, can you say he carried your sin? Call to mind his complaint in the fifth chapter of Isaiah, "Now will I sing to my well beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. Complain not, then. 1 So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. Beloved, let us thirst for the souls of our fellow-men. 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