Remember, dear friends, that what Christ suffered for us, these unregenerate ones must suffer for themselves, except they put their trust in Christ. 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. The mind of man is like the daughters of the horseleech, which cry for ever, "Give, give." 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. 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 . John 19:7-8. "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. 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. It does not often happen that five or six thousand people meet together twice; it never does, I suppose; the scythe of death must cut some of you down before my voice shall warn you again! Oh! Think of the millions in this dark world! 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. We ought all to have a longing for conversions. Jesus was deserted of God; and if he, who was only imputedly a sinner, was deserted, how much more shall you be? C.H. That is very possible; Christ may have carried the heavier end, against the transverse beam, and Simon may have borne the lighter end. We know from experience that the present effect of sin in every man who indulges in it is thirst of soul. "To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise." Are you lukewarm? It is so with each one of you? Who among us would not willingly pour out his soul unto death if he might but give refreshment to the Lord? Then they said, "Hail, King of the Jews!" And they struck Him with their hands. 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. Let each of us say "Tis all my business here below To cry, Behold the Lamb!" John 1:30-31. Holy Scripture remains the basis of our faith, established by every word and act of our Redeemer. 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. 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. Mark you, the ransom of men was all paid by Christ; that was redemption by price. Today! It is that he may eat and drink with you, for he promises that if we open to him he will enter in and sup with us and we with him. First, they teach and confirm many of the doctrines of our holy faith. Do not let the picture vanish till you have satisfied yourselves once for all that Christ was here the substitute for you. 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. May the Holy Ghost work in you the complete pattern of Christ crucified, and to him shall be praise for ever and ever. The utterance of "I thirst" brought out A TYPE OF MAN'S TREATMENT OF HIS LORD. Did we not do so years ago before we knew him? 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. Save your tears for them; Christ asks them not in sympathy for himself. There are many other ways in which these words might be read, and they would be found to be all full of instruction. 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. What learn we here as we see Christ led forth? We shall by the assistance of the Holy Spirit try to regard these words of our Saviour in a five-fold light. Jesus paused, and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me; but weep for yourselves and for your children." But power is wanted to dash down those idols, to overcome the hosts of error; where is it to be found? "I thirst" is the fifth cry, and its utterance teaches us the truth of Scripture, for all things were accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, and therefore our Lord said, "I thirst." 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. 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. Nor does the grief end here, for have not the best works we have ever done, and the best feelings we ever felt, and the best prayers we have ever offered, been tart and sour with sin? 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. Hunger and thirst after righteousness, for you shall be filled. 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. He also knew well the terrible joy that comes only through suffering as he lived quite afflicted (both by illness and slander). 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. Read Joo 15:7 bible commentary from Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible by Charles Haddon Spurgeon FREE on BiblePortal.com 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. "He that taketh not up his cross and followeth not after me," says Christ, "is not worthy of me." 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." 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!" According to modern thought man is a very fine and noble creature, struggling to become better. So were the streets of Jerusalem; for great multitudes followed him. Amen. I think that Roman soldier meant well, at least well for a rough warrior with his little light and knowledge. 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. Partner with StudyLight.org as God uses us to make a difference for those displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine. I am glad the world expects much from us, and watches us narrowly. Let all your love be his. 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. "And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes," vinegar, and not wine; sourness, and not sweetness. John preached a sacrificial Saviour, a sin-bearing Saviour, a sin-atoning Saviour. Let the sympathy of Christ, then, be fully believed in and deeply appreciated, since he said, "I thirst." II. 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. We used to melt when we heard about his sufferings, but we did not turn from our sins. 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." This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. 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. 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. Now Christ standing in the stead of the ungodly suffers thirst as a type of his enduring the result of sin. John 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. Jesus said, "I thirst," and this is the complaint of a man. 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. It was most fitting that every word of our Lord upon the cross should be gathered up and preserved. 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. Trust in the Son of God and you shall never die. I think, beloved friends, that the cry of "I thirst" was THE MYSTICAL EXPRESSION OF THE DESIRE OF HIS HEART "I thirst." The cup of which thou art made to drink, though it be very bitter, bears the mark of his lips about its brim. Here, as everywhere else, we are constrained to say of our Lord, "Never man spake like this man." If not, may that picture of Christ fainting in the streets lead you to do so this morning. Our glorious Samson had been fighting our foes; heaps upon heaps he had slain his thousands, and now like Samson he was sore athirst. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. 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." 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." 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." "'Twere you my sins, my cruel sins, His chief tormentors were; Each of my grimes became a nail, And unbelief the spear. The lictors executed their cruel office upon his shoulders with their rods and scourges, until the stripes had reached the full number. 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. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it. "Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, and touch not the unclean thing." There is bread upon your table to-day, and there will be at least a cup of cold water to refresh you. That man is a fool and deserves no pity, who purposely excites the disgust of other people. It was the common place of death. The great agony of being forsaken by God was over, and he felt faint when the strain was withdrawn. 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. 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. "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do" is the first. May we not despise our loaded table while he is neglected? I invite you to meditate upon the true humanity of our Lord very reverently, and very lovingly. As not a bone of him shall be broken, so not a word shall be lost. Oh! good God! We will now take the text in a third way, and may the Spirit of God instruct us once again. John 19:16 . O souls, burdened with sin, rest ye here, and resting live. 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. "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" She craved full flagons of love though she was already overpowered by it. There is one way by which you can tell whether he carried your sin or not. I do not think we should seek after needless persecution. For him they have no tolerance. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 19 John 19:1-16 John 19:1. We should love the cross, and count it very dear, because it works out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. Among other things methinks he meant this "If I, the innocent substitute for sinners, suffer thus, what will be done when the sinner himself the dry tree whose sins are his own, and not merely imputed to him, shall fall into the hands of an angry God." "Weep for yourselves," says Christ, "rather than for me." I claim for the procession of my Lord an interest superior to the pageant you are now so anxiously expecting. According to the sacred canticle of love, in the fifth chapter of the Song of Songs, we learn that when he drank in those olden times it was in the garden of his church that he was refreshed. 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. Hast thou laid thy hand upon his head, confessed thy sin, and trusted in him? He thirsted to pluck us from between the jaws of hell, to pay our redemption price, and set us free from the eternal condemnation which hung over us; and when on the cross the work was almost done his thirst was not assuaged, and could not be till he could say, "It is finished." You carry the cross after him. 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. How great the love which led him to such a condescension as this! I cannot think that natural thirst was all he felt. Let us muse upon the fact that Jesus was conducted without the gates of the city. Coming fresh from the country, not knowing what was going on, he joined with the mob, and they made him carry the cross. Did he not tell his disciples, "I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished?" If we be true to our Master we shall soon lose the friendship of the world. 'Tis his cross, and he goes before you as a shepherd goes before his sheep. There was a deeper meaning in his words than she dreamed of, as a verse further down fully proves, when he said to his disciples, "I have meat to eat that ye know not of." 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. Our Lord in his death-cries, as in all else, was perfection itself. Will your Prince be decorated with honors? crucify him!" Today! With "I thirst" the evil is destroyed and receives its expiation. The "I thirst" was the bearing of the last pang; what if I say it was the expression of the fact that his pangs had at last begun to cease, and their fury had spent itself, and left him able to note his lessor pains? 29. 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. He was innocent, and yet he thirsted; shall we marvel if guilty ones are now and then chastened? Home; Origin; Birth; John; Acts; About; JOHN 19 COMMENTARY . What a cataract of immortal souls dashes downwards to the pit every hour! 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. The last of his last words is also taken from the Scriptures, and shows where his mind was feeding. The excitement of a great struggle makes men forget thirst and faintness; it is only when all is over that they come back to themselves and note the spending of their strength. What doth he say? John and Herod 1549 - Good News for Thirsty Souls 1550 - The Unspeakable Gift 1551 - Today! 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." Certainly it is so with you; you do but carry the light end of the cross; Christ bore the heavier end. 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. Shake off the thought, any of you who suppose that God will have pity on you because you have endured affliction. Weep not for him, but for these. 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. Fix your hearts upon some unsaved one, and thirst until he is saved. Well, then, what means this cry, "I thirst," but this, that we should thirst too? We see how the Holy Spirit wants us to pray. Ray Stedman I have shown you, believer, your position; let me now show you your service. Last Sunday the remark was made to me "If the story of the sufferings of Christ had been told of any other man, all the congregation would have been in tears." Then comes the "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" 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. "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. Mine is adorned with garments crimsoned with his own blood. 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. 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. 1. 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." 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. Brother, thirst I pray you to have your workpeople saved. Cover it with a cloak? Are you so frozen at heart that not a cup of cold water can be melted for Jesus? The high places of earth's worship and honor are not for us. The last word but one, "It is finished." The soldiery mocked and insulted him in every way that cruelty and scorn could devise. 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. Remember how Paul said, "I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. 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. 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. 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. There are no passages in all the public ministry of Jesus so tender as those which have regard to Jerusalem. ", 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. How near akin the thirsty Saviour is to us; let us love him more and more. It is not sorrow over Rome, but Jerusalem. Betrayal and arrest in the garden. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. Remember that, and expect to suffer. Believing this, let us tenderly feel how very near akin to us our Lord Jesus has become. Oh! May we not be half ashamed of our pleasures when he says, "I thirst"? The platted crown of thorns, the purple robe, the reed with which they smote him, and the spittle with which they disfigured him, all these marked the contempt in which they held the King of the Jews. He thirsts to bless you and to receive your grateful love in return; he thirsts to see you looking with believing eye to his fulness, and holding out your emptiness that he may supply it. Alas, man is the slave and the dupe of Satan, and a black-hearted traitor to his God. Every word, therefore, you see teaches us some grand fundamental doctrine of our blessed faith. 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. 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." Scripture provides a wealth . And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. 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. To-day I invite your attention to another Prince, marching in another fashion through his metropolis. You have been ill, and you have been parched with fever as he was, and then you too have gasped out "I thirst." 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. Shall it ever be a hardship to be denied the satisfying draught when he said, "I thirst." Some of you will not be baptized because you think people will say, "He is a professor; how holy he ought to be." We can never forget the painful scenes of which we have been witness, when we have watched the dissolving of the human frame. 1089 - The Man Greatly Beloved . 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. John 19:16 . A strong emphasis in Spurgeon's preaching was God's grace and sovereignty over man's helpless state. How truly man he is; he is, indeed, "bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh," for he bears our infirmities. 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. He can receive vinegar, but not lukewarm love. 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. "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. Pilate, as we reminded you, scourged our Savior according to the common custom of Roman courts. 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." 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. (6) John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the sour wine, He said, " It is finished! Mark then, Christian, Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. is the fourth cry, and it illustrates the penalty endured by our Substitute when he bore our sins, and so was forsaken of his God. Rutherford says, "Whenever Christ gives us a cross, he cries, 'Halves, my love.'" 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. 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. We gave him our tears and then grieved him with our sins. His great love makes him thirst to have us much nearer than we are; he will never be satisfied till all his redeemed are beyond gunshot of thee enemy. Acts 19 Acts 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. The Church must suffer, that the gospel may be spread by her means. Appetite was the door of sin, and therefore in that point our Lord was put to pain. Our first parents plucked forbidden fruit, and by eating slew the race. It was a confirmation of the Scripture testimony with regard to man's natural enmity to God. 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. 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. And well they may; the son of such noble parents deserves a nation's love. 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. 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. Did I not describe last Sabbath the knotted scourges which fell upon the Saviours back? 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." "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. We may therefore come before him, with all the rest of our race, when God subdues them to repentance by his love, and look on him whom we have pierced, and mourn for him as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. 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