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." The power to suffer for another, the capacity to be self-denying even to an extreme to accomplish some great work for God this is a thing to be sought after, and must be gained before our work is done, and in this Jesus is before us our example and our strength. Was not the Redeemer led thither to aggravate his shame? Complain not, then. Can you help feeling how very near Jesus is to us when his lips must be moistened with a sponge, and he must be so dependent upon others as to ask drink from their hand? "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" We ought not to forget the Jews. 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. The cup of which thou art made to drink, though it be very bitter, bears the mark of his lips about its brim. 2 And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, . (6) John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the sour wine, He said, " It is finished! Will your thoroughfares be thronged? good God! 29. 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. Our Lord in his death-cries, as in all else, was perfection itself. 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." 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. God forbid! In the fourth place, one or two words upon CHRIST'S FELLOW-SUFFERERS. 1089 - The Man Greatly Beloved . Christ was always thirsty to save men, and to be loved of men; and we see a type of his life-long desire when, being weary, he sat thus on the well and said to the woman of Samaria, "Give me to drink." 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 Beloved, can you say he carried your sin? 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." If he was so poor that his garments were stripped from him, and he was hung up upon the tree, penniless and friendless, hungering and thirsting, will you henceforth groan and murmur because you bear the yoke of poverty and want? 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. Do not let us forget the infinite distance between the Lord of glory on his throne and the Crucified dried up with thirst. Romanists of all ages have wrought upon the feelings of the people in this manner, and to a degree the attempt is commendable, but if it shall all end in tears of pity, no good is done. I invite your attention to CHRIST AS LED FORTH. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh." I. There is the complete justification of the believer, since the work by which he is accepted is fully accomplished. John 19 Commentary John chapter 19 commentary Bible study. I invite you to meditate upon the true humanity of our Lord very reverently, and very lovingly. "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. They take matters very gently; they think it unnecessary to be soldiers of the cross. Partner with StudyLight.org as God uses us to make a difference for those displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine. London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. How truly man he is; he is, indeed, "bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh," for he bears our infirmities. Rutherford says, "Whenever Christ gives us a cross, he cries, 'Halves, my love.'" Did we not do so years ago before we knew him? And what makes him love us so? But my Prince is hated without a cause. I have already told you that such was our Lord's mystical desire; let it be ours also. Dear fountain of delight unknown! I show unto you a more excellent way. The soldiery mocked and insulted him in every way that cruelty and scorn could devise. 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. In the former cry, as he opened Paradise, you saw the Son of God; now you see him who was verily and truly born of a women, made under the law; and under the law you see him still, for he honours his mother and cares for her in the last article of death. Nor is this all. 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. Do not let the picture vanish till you have satisfied yourselves once for all that Christ was here the substitute for you. And said, Hail, King of the Jews! 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." You may sit under a sermon, and feel a great deal, but your feeling is worthless unless it leads you to weep for yourselves and for your children. Let patience have her perfect work. Go ye, then, like the Master, expecting to be abused, to wear an ill-name, and to earn reproach; go ye, like him, without the camp. "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do" is the first. Brother, thirst to have your children save. A strong emphasis in Spurgeon's preaching was God's grace and sovereignty over man's helpless state. And yet, though he was Lord of all he had so fully taken upon himself the form of a servant and was so perfectly made in the likeness of sinful flesh, that he cried with fainting voice, "I thirst." and they smote him with their hands. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. Hail, ye despised children of the sun, ye follow first after the King in the march of woe. Did not the prophecies say that man would give to his incarnate God gall to eat and vinegar to drink? Betrayal and arrest in the garden. As Christ went through the streets, a great multitude looked on. Say not that the comparison is strained, for in a moment I will withdraw it and present the contrast. 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. Every word, therefore, you see teaches us some grand fundamental doctrine of our blessed faith. 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. No longer sink below the brim; But overflow, and pour me down A living and life-giving stream.". You may die so, you may die now. 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." 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. There are no passages in all the public ministry of Jesus so tender as those which have regard to Jerusalem. Here you see how the mortal flesh had to share in the agony of the inward spirit. The high places of earth's worship and honor are not for us. Jesus, being a man, escaped none of the ills which are allotted to man in death. You and I have nothing else to preach. Let us magnify and bless our Redeemer's name. O to be enlarged in soul so as to take deeper draughts of his sweet love, for our heart cannot have enough. So were the streets of Jerusalem; for great multitudes followed him. It is a blow at the fable of purgatory which strikes it to the heart. 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. John 19:16 . Read Joo 15:7 bible commentary from Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible by Charles Haddon Spurgeon FREE on BiblePortal.com The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. 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. Once again, as we think of this "I thirst," which proves our Lord's humanity, let us resolve to shun no denials, but rather court them that we may be conformed to his image. John 19:7-8. 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. This was intended at once to proclaim his guilt and intimate his doom. I am not the One anointed of God to save mankind. John 1:21. Let me add, that when we look at the sufferings of Christ, we ought to sorrow deeply for the souls of all unregenerate men and women. 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. Ah, that I cannot tell, except his own great love. There is one way by which you can tell whether he carried your sin or not. This hint only. Mine is adorned with garments crimsoned with his own blood. Who among us would not willingly pour out his soul unto death if he might but give refreshment to the Lord? Behold, my King is not without his crown alas, a crown of thorns set with ruby drops of blood! 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 He died in less time than persons crucified commonly did. The sufferings of Christ should make us weep over those who have brought that blood upon their heads. 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." I do not think we should seek after needless persecution. Did not the high-priest bring the scape-goat, and put both his hands upon its head, confessing the sins of the people, that thus those sins might be laid upon the goat? 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 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. You young believers, who have lately followed Christ, should father and mother forsake you, remember you were bidden to reckon upon it; should brothers and sisters deride, you must put this down as part of the cost of being a Christian. 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. Others think that Simon carried the whole of the cross. It was a confirmation of the Scripture testimony with regard to man's natural enmity to God. 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. Oh! John preached a sacrificial Saviour, a sin-bearing Saviour, a sin-atoning Saviour. 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. Whether a disciple then or not, we have every reason to believe that he became so afterwards; he was the father, we read, of Alexander and Rufus, two persons who appear to have been well known in the early Church; let us hope that salvation came to his house when he was compelled to bear the Savior's cross. I am glad the world expects much from us, and watches us narrowly. 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. 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. Hail, everlasting King in heaven, thou dost admit to thy paradise whomsoever thou wilt! John, the gospel of faith by Harrison, Everett Falconer, 1902- from Everyman's Bible Commentary series. A Christian living to indulge the base appetites of a brute beast, to eat and to drink almost to gluttony and drunkenness, is utterly unworthy of the name. He must love his chosen whom he has once begun to love, for he is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. It was a thirst such as none of us have ever known, for not yet has the death dew condensed upon our brows. "'Twere you my sins, my cruel sins, His chief tormentors were; Each of my grimes became a nail, And unbelief the spear. 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. 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. They would be very proper, very proper; God forbid that we should stay them, except with the gentle words of Christ, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me." They put his own clothes upon him, because they were the perquisites of the executioner, as modern hangmen take the garments of those whom they execute, so did the four soldiers claim a right to his raiment. Yes, he loves to be with his people; they are the garden where he walks for refreshment, and their love, their graces, are the milk and wine which he delights to drink. We see how the Holy Spirit wants us to pray. II. (1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. Then I will thirst with him and not complain, I will suffer with him and not murmur." 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. 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. 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." She craved full flagons of love though she was already overpowered by it. First, we shall look upon them as THE ENSIGN OF HIS TRUE HUMANITY. In the same song he speaks of his church, and says, "The roof of thy mouth is as the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak." 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. 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. I am ashamed of some professed Christians, heartily ashamed of them! Such a greeting had the Lord of glory, but alas, it was not the shout of welcome, but the yell of "Away with him! These are awful words, but they are not mine; they are the very words of God in Scripture. While other religions create what appear to be worship-filled gatherings, they are empty and void of fact. 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. As not a bone of him shall be broken, so not a word shall be lost. 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." "To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise." Of the many benefits we have in learning from Paul, a few stand out:1. But further, my brethren; this, I think, is the great lesson from Christ's being slaughtered without the gate of the city let us go forth, therefore, without the camp, bearing his reproach. He must love, it is his nature. 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. Largest collection of Spurgeon resources online, including a complete 63 volume set of sermons, audio sermons, books, and quotes. C.H. Are you so frozen at heart that not a cup of cold water can be melted for Jesus? From the sky the angels viewed him with wonder and amazement; the spirits of the just looked from the windows of heaven upon the scene, yea, the great God and Father watched each movement of his suffering Son. what a black thought crosses our mind! Certainly it is so with you; you do but carry the light end of the cross; Christ bore the heavier end. Come let us pour out full flagons, until his joy is fulfilled in us. 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!" Alas, man is the slave and the dupe of Satan, and a black-hearted traitor to his God. "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. and the answer shall come back, "Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; but ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh." 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." 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. "I thirst" meant that his heart was thirsting to save men. 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. Our first parents plucked forbidden fruit, and by eating slew the race. It was one of Death's castles; here he stored his gloomiest trophies; he was the grim lord of that stronghold. Your Prince is surrounded by a multitude of friends; hark how they joyously welcome him! Volume 19, Sermons 1089-1149 (1873) Hide. And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou ? There can be no shadow of doubt but that our Lord was really crucified, and no one substituted for him. We may well remember our faults this day. I have shown you, believer, your position; let me now show you your service. 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." Is not this a fertile field of thought? I like to think of our Lord's saying, "It is finished," directly after he had exclaimed, "I thirst"; for these two voices come so naturally together. We all know that a different dress will often raise a doubt about the identity of an individual; but lo! We shall by the assistance of the Holy Spirit try to regard these words of our Saviour in a five-fold light. Now, I am not sure that we ought to blame ourselves for this. It was most fitting that every word of our Lord upon the cross should be gathered up and preserved. First, they teach and confirm many of the doctrines of our holy faith. We do not know what may have been the color of alimony face, but it was most likely black. Have we not often given him vinegar to drink? Although Simon carried Christ's cross, he did not volunteer to do it, but they compelled him. He also knew well the terrible joy that comes only through suffering as he lived quite afflicted (both by illness and slander). "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. After preaching his first sermon at the age of 16, he became pastor of the church in Waterbeach at the age of 17. 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." And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe. Neither in torture of body nor in sadness of heart are we deserted by our Lord; his line is parallel with ours. 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. 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." 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. 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 would fain lift thy name on high in grateful remembrance of the depths to which thou didst descend! So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. 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." You have blessed company; your path is marked with footprints of your Lord. Beware of rendering him homage and dishonouring his name at the same time. In that cry there is reconciliation to God. You must consider Jesus, and not yourself; turn your eye to Christ, the great substitute for sinners, but never dream of trusting in yourselves. For the thousands of eyes which shall gaze upon the youthful Prince, I offer the gaze of men and angels. Are you lukewarm? Certain philosophers have said that they love the pursuit of truth even better than the knowledge of truth. 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. It is calculated that one soul passes from time into eternity every time the clock ticks! 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. As he commends his spirit into the Father's hand, so does he bring all believers nigh to God, and henceforth we are in the hand of the Father, who is greater than all, and none shall pluck us thence. 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