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. He wants you brother, he wants you, dear sister, he longs to have you wholly to himself. 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. 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. 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. Sit at his feet with Mary, lean on his breast with John; yea, come with the spouse in the song and say, "Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for his love is better than wine." John Chapter 19 - In-depth, verse-by-verse commentary and Bible study of John chapter 19 in plain English. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. II. In the multitude there was a sparse sprinkling of tender-hearted women, probably those who had been healed, or whose children had been blessed by him. 'Tis his cross, and he goes before you as a shepherd goes before his sheep. 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. Can they be compared to generous wine? They force him without the walls, and are not satisfied till they have rid themselves of his obnoxious presence. 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. 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. Now we see Jesus brought before the priests and rulers, who pronounce him guilty; God himself imputes our sins to him; he was made sin for us; and, as the substitute for our guilt, bearing our sin upon his shoulders for that cross was a sort of representation in wood of our guilt and doom we see the great Scape-goat led away by the appointed officers of justice. Shall it ever be a hardship to be denied the satisfying draught when he said, "I thirst." Do not forget, also, that you bear this cross in partnership. The sufferings of Christ should make us weep over those who have brought that blood upon their heads. I do not think we should seek after needless persecution. Inductive Bible study on John 19. 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. It is calculated that one soul passes from time into eternity every time the clock ticks! May we not be half ashamed of our pleasures when he says, "I thirst"? "I thirst" meant that his heart was thirsting to save men. 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. They are created in the minds of men. So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. John 1 19-51 Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 1:19-51 John 1:19. You may die so, you may die now. The world has in former days counted it God's service to kill the saints. Though Simon had to bear the cross for a very little while, it gave him lasting honor. There is bread upon your table to-day, and there will be at least a cup of cold water to refresh you. Jesus thirsted, then let us thirst in this dry and thirsty land where no water is. "Women, behold thy son!" And they asked him, What then? 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? Then they said, "Hail, King of the Jews!" And they struck Him with their hands. I do not know how far it was from Pilate's house to the Mount of Doom. Betrayal and arrest in the garden. How harshly grate the cruel syllables, "Crucify him! You see there the multitude are leading him forth from the temple. After our Lord Jesus Christ had been formally condemned by Pilate, our text tells us he was led away. Well, then, what means this cry, "I thirst," but this, that we should thirst too? 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. Christ was spit upon with shame; sinner, what shame will be yours! 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. Like the steps of a ladder or the links of a golden chain, there is a mutual dependence and interlinking of each of the cries, so that one leads to another and that to a third. The Holy Spirit took special care that each of the sacred utterances should be fittingly recorded. "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." While other religions create what appear to be worship-filled gatherings, they are empty and void of fact. " And having said this, He breathed His last. He believed, as a Roman in gods many. Those pictures which represent our Lord as wearing the crown of thorns upon the tree have therefore at least some scriptural warrant. 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!". 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. The great agony of being forsaken by God was over, and he felt faint when the strain was withdrawn. His most fruitful years of ministry were at the New Park Street and later the Metropolitan Tabernacle pulpit in London. 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. The last word but one, "It is finished." Usually the crier went before with an announcement such as this, "This is Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews, who for making himself a King, and stirring up the people, has been condemned to die." 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. There have been times, and the days may come again, when faithfulness to Christ has entailed exclusion from what is called "society." No, no; we must not make a cross of our own. There are many other ways in which these words might be read, and they would be found to be all full of instruction. wherein we see the Son of man in the gentleness of a son caring for his bereaved mother. Next Saturday all eyes will be fixed on a great Prince who shall ride through our streets with his Royal Bride. 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. Have you repented of sin? They put on him his own clothes that the multitudes might discern him to be the same man, the very man who had professed to be the Messias. Hail, ye despised children of the sun, ye follow first after the King in the march of woe. Jesus was deserted of God; and if he, who was only imputedly a sinner, was deserted, how much more shall you be? 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. See, brethren, where sin begins, and mark that there it ends. 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." This is man's treatment of his Saviour. Includes cross references, questions, verse by verse commentary, outline, and applications on John chapter 19 for small groups. 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. For him they have no tolerance. The spear broke up the very fountains of life; no human body could survive such a wound. 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. As you look at the cross upon his shoulders does it represent your sin? Let this mind be in you also. He must love, it is his nature. 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. Nay more; he is banished from their society, as if he were a leper whose breath would be infectious whose presence would scatter plague. (1-3) Jesus enters the garden, followed by Judas and his troops. O thou blessed Master, if we are indeed nailed up to the tree with thee, give us a thirst after thee with a thirst which only the cup of "the new covenant in thy blood" can ever satisfy. 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. souls, I do beseech you, by the agonies of Christ, by his wounds and by his blood, do not bring upon yourselves the curse; do not bear in your own persons the awful wrath to come! We ought not to forget the Jews. 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. The arrow which has lately pierced thee, my brother, was first stained with his blood. 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. 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. "Weep for yourselves," says Christ, "rather than for me." This hint only. He would have sacrificed himself to save his countrymen, so heartily did he desire their eternal welfare. Bearing upon his back the sin of all his people, the offering goes without the camp. You have seen Jesus led away by his enemies; so shall you be dragged away by fiends to the place appointed for you. If you will look, there is the mark of his blood-red shoulder upon that heavy cross. 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. It is not fit that he should live." Shall carnal appetites be indulged and bodies pampered when Jesus cried :I thirst"? He is exiled from their friendship, too. There are more unlikely things than that you will be dead before next Sunday. The lictors executed their cruel office upon his shoulders with their rods and scourges, until the stripes had reached the full number. I. This was intended at once to proclaim his guilt and intimate his doom. I claim for the procession of my Lord an interest superior to the pageant you are now so anxiously expecting. 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. London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. 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. 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. Today! 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. 36 These things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled: "Not one of his bones will be broken,"[ a] 37 and, as another scripture says, "They will look on the one they have pierced."[ b] Read full chapter Footnotes It is not likely that we shall be able to worship with their worship. If we be true to our Master we shall soon lose the friendship of the world. Let patience have her perfect work. 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. why hast thou forsaken me?" John 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. 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. No longer sink below the brim; But overflow, and pour me down A living and life-giving stream.". 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. But ye ask me where is the spouse, the king's daughter fair and beautiful? And yet again in the eighth chapter the bride saith, "I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate." 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. The Geneva Series of Commentaries include historic commentaries on biblical books written by some of the great theologians in the history of the church. Say not that the comparison is strained, for in a moment I will withdraw it and present the contrast. We are to reckon upon all this, and should the worst befal us, it is to be no strange thing to us. "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" There are some who in company hold their tongues, and never say a good word for Christ. 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. 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. John and Herod 1549 - Good News for Thirsty Souls 1550 - The Unspeakable Gift 1551 - Today! "After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst." How has it been with you? Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. 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. 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. Alas poor African, thou hast been compelled to carry the cross even until now. are they not more like sharp vinegar? Do not let us forget the infinite distance between the Lord of glory on his throne and the Crucified dried up with thirst. I have now a third picture to present to you CHRIST AND HIS MOURNERS. Weep not for him, but for these. No sufferings of ours have anything to do with the atonement of sin. We will now take the text in a third way, and may the Spirit of God instruct us once again. 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." Sister, thirst for the salvation of your class, thirst for the redemption of your family, thirst for the conversion of your husband. 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!" Take up your cross daily and follow him. See, it has been blackened with bruises, and stained with the shameful spittle of them that derided him. IV. O Lord Jesus, we love thee and we worship thee! With "I thirst" the evil is destroyed and receives its expiation. We see in Simon's carrying the cross a picture of what the Church is to do throughout all generations. O brother, if he says, "I thirst" and you bring him a lukewarm heart, that is worse than vinegar, for he has said, "I will spue thee out of my mouth." away with him." 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. Dear fountain of delight unknown! 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." We can never forget the painful scenes of which we have been witness, when we have watched the dissolving of the human frame. 29. 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." John 19:1-16 - Glory Mocked and Condemned John 19:17-30 - Glory Crucified John 19:31-42 - Glory Buried A. Jesus is condemned to crucifixion. 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." They are these Weep not because the Savior bled, but because your sins made him bleed. 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. Simon was an African; he came from Cyrene. Our Lord is the Maker of the ocean and the waters that are above the firmament: it is his hand that stays or opens the bottles of heaven, and sendeth rain upon the evil and upon the good. To-day I invite your attention to another Prince, marching in another fashion through his metropolis. 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." He calls for that: will you not give it to him? 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. 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. Ray Stedman Beloved, can you say he carried your sin? He thirsted for water doubtless, but his soul was thirsty in a higher sense; indeed, he seems only to have spoken that the Scriptures might be fulfilled as to the offering him vinegar. 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? But power is wanted to dash down those idols, to overcome the hosts of error; where is it to be found? Now recollect, if Jesus had not thirsted, every one of us would have thirsted for ever afar off from God, with an impassable gulf between us and heaven. " And He bowed His head, and gave up His spirit. (1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. 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. 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. Thirst is no royal grief, but an evil of universal manhood; Jesus is brother to the poorest and most humble of our race. Do we not see here the truth of that which was set forth in shadow by the scape-goat? Here is the safety of the believer in the hour of his departure, and his instant admission into the presence of his Lord. 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! He is not allowed to worship with them. "Wist ye not," said he, while yet a boy, "that I must be about my Father's business?" How great the love which led him to such a condescension as this! 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. I am glad the world expects much from us, and watches us narrowly. April 14th, 1878 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). Oh! 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. 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. 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." Rutherford used words somewhat to this effect, "I thirst for my Lord and this is joy; a joy which no man taketh from me. 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. C.H. He is indeed "Immanuel, God with us" everywhere. God forbid! But such is not the truthful estimate of man according to the Scriptures: there man is a fallen creature, with a carnal mind which cannot be reconciled to God; a worse than brutish creature, rendering evil for good, and treating his God with vile ingratitude. NOTICE the connection, or you will miss the meaning of the words; for at first sight it looks as if our Saviour taught us that it John:6:29 The Marvellous Magnet What a cataract of immortal souls dashes downwards to the pit every hour! 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. Oh! 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. John 19:1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. See, brethren, here is a picture of what we may expect from men if we are faithful to our Master. 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. A strong emphasis in Spurgeon's preaching was God's grace and sovereignty over man's helpless state. And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe. Do you not remember how that thirst of his was strong in the old days of the prophet? We are not sure that Simon was a disciple of Christ; he may have been a friendly spectator; yet one would think the Jews would naturally select a disciple if they could. 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 thirst," is his human body tormented by grievous pain. Commentary on John 19:31-37 (Read John 19:31-37) A trial was made whether Jesus was dead. When they had mocked him they pulled off the purple garment he had worn, this rough operation would cause much pain. (7) Luke 23:46 And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, "Father, INTO THY HANDS I COMMIT MY SPIRIT. Think of that! It is the opinion of some commentators that Simon only carried one end of the cross, and not the whole of it. We see how the Holy Spirit wants us to pray. Shake off the thought, any of you who suppose that God will have pity on you because you have endured affliction. 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. First, they teach and confirm many of the doctrines of our holy faith. By contrast, the Christian faith is built on the . Brother, thirst I pray you to have your workpeople saved. May the Holy Ghost work in you the complete pattern of Christ crucified, and to him shall be praise for ever and ever. The woes which broke the Savior's heart must crush theirs. 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. 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." 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. 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