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. O my hearers, beware of praising Jesus and denying his atoning sacrifice. 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. Today! 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. We know from experience that the present effect of sin in every man who indulges in it is thirst of soul. How truly man he is; he is, indeed, "bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh," for he bears our infirmities. 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. Conceal your religion? Was not the Redeemer led thither to aggravate his shame? 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. 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. I will not say it is because we are unfaithful to our Master that the world is more kind to us, but I half suspect it is, and it is very possible that if we were more thoroughly Christians the world would more heartily detest us, and if we would cleave more closely to Christ we might expect to receive more slander, more abuse, less tolerance, and less favor from men. 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 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. "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." 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. Hark how their loud voices demand that he should be hastened to execution! 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. Come hither, ye lovers of Immanuel, and I will show you this great sight the King of sorrow marching to his throne of grief, the cross. 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. Hunger and thirst after righteousness, for you shall be filled. How harshly grate the cruel syllables, "Crucify him! Lloyd-Jones opens John 19:31-37 to answer that very question. A few times the sun will go up and down the hill; a few more moons will wax and wane, and then we shall receive the glory. The Redeemer's cry of "I thirst" is a solemn lesson of patience to his afflicted. It was the common place of death. We see how the Holy Spirit wants us to pray. The last of his last words is also taken from the Scriptures, and shows where his mind was feeding. Calvary was like our Old Bailey; it was the usual place of execution for the district. Let me show what I think he meant. Oh! This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. We see in Simon's carrying the cross a picture of what the Church is to do throughout all generations. Oh I raise the question, and be not satisfied unless you can answer it most positively in the affirmative. Are you lukewarm? 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 may well remember our faults this day. John 19:16 . With "I thirst" the evil is destroyed and receives its expiation. " And having said this, He breathed His last. John, the gospel of faith by Harrison, Everett Falconer, 1902- from Everyman's Bible Commentary series. Largest collection of Spurgeon resources online, including a complete 63 volume set of sermons, audio sermons, books, and quotes. Did not the prophecies say that man would give to his incarnate God gall to eat and vinegar to drink? In the fourth place, one or two words upon CHRIST'S FELLOW-SUFFERERS. They place the cross upon Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country. 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. what a black thought crosses our mind! Oh! They are created in the minds of men. 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." It is not sorrow over Rome, but Jerusalem. When they had mocked him they pulled off the purple garment he had worn, this rough operation would cause much pain. 1089 - The Man Greatly Beloved . If you will look, there is the mark of his blood-red shoulder upon that heavy cross. What, then, dear friends, should be the sorrows excited by a view of Christ's sufferings? I have heard sermons, and studied works by Romish writers upon the passion and agony, which have moved me to copious tears, but I am not clear that all the emotion was profitable. 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? 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. First, we shall look upon them as THE ENSIGN OF HIS TRUE HUMANITY. 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. Oh! When you are molested for your piety; when your religion brings the trial of cruel mockings upon you; then remember, it is not your cross, it is Christ's cross; and how delightful is it to carry the cross of our Lord Jesus? 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. 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. John 19:7-8. Jesus thirsted, then let us thirst in this dry and thirsty land where no water is. Though Simon had to bear the cross for a very little while, it gave him lasting honor. He also knew well the terrible joy that comes only through suffering as he lived quite afflicted (both by illness and slander). We read, "The soldiers also mocked him, offering him vinegar." A new edition of Spurgeon's classic devotional using the ESV. The last word but one, "It is finished." It is the way whereby many shall be brought to Christ, when this blessed soul-thirst of true Christian charity shall be upon those who are themselves saved. Commentators like Thomas Manton and John Calvin are represented in this series. 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." 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 that are ashamed of Christ, how can you read that text, "He that is ashamed of me, and of my words, of him will I be ashamed when I come in the glory of my Father, and all my holy angels with me." 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. 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. "Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, and touch not the unclean thing." Mark you, the ransom of men was all paid by Christ; that was redemption by price. Think of that! By contrast, the Christian faith is built on the . John 19:4-5. This cross was a ponderous machine; not so heavy, perhaps, as some pictures would represent it, but still no light burden to a man whose shoulders were raw with the lashes of the Roman scourge. For the thousands of eyes which shall gaze upon the youthful Prince, I offer the gaze of men and angels. 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. He did not spare his Son the stripes. "The sea is his, and he made it," and all fountains and springs are of his digging. May the Holy Ghost help us to hear a fourth tuning of the dolorous music, "I thirst." Complain not, then. Jesus, being a man, escaped none of the ills which are allotted to man in death. We care, however, far more for the fact that he went forth carrying his cross upon his shoulders. "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani," what an awful shriek! 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. 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. 29. The utterance of "I thirst" brought out A TYPE OF MAN'S TREATMENT OF HIS LORD. John 19:1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. He believed, as a Roman in gods many. The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. What learn we here as we see Christ led forth? May we not be half ashamed of our pleasures when he says, "I thirst"? A river of the water of life, pure as crystal, proceedeth to-day out of the throne of God and of the Lamb, and yet once he condescended to say, "I thirst," before his angelic guards, they would surely have emulated the courage of the men of David when they cut their way to the well of Bethlehem that was within the gate, and drew water in jeopardy of their lives. The spear broke up the very fountains of life; no human body could survive such a wound. He is greatly to be commended and admired, for his sin is said to be seeking after God, and his superstition is a struggling after light. The lictors executed their cruel office upon his shoulders with their rods and scourges, until the stripes had reached the full number. Shall it ever be a hardship to be denied the satisfying draught when he said, "I thirst." V. Lastly, the cry of "I thirst" is to us THE PATTERN OF OUR DEATH WITH HIM. We all know that a different dress will often raise a doubt about the identity of an individual; but lo! Always was he in harmony with himself, and his own body was always expressive of his soul's cravings as well as of its own longings. 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. Scripture provides a wealth . Do not forget, also, that you bear this cross in partnership. Let all your love be his. We shall perhaps know it in our measure in our dying hour, but not yet, nor ever so terribly as he did. 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." 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. "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Well, beloved, the cross we have to carry is only for a little while at most. He sipped of the vinegar, and he was refreshed, and no sooner has he thrown off the thirst than he shouted like a conqueror, "It is finished," and quitted the field, covered with renown. 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 19:3. 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!". So were the streets of Jerusalem; for great multitudes followed 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." It began with the mouth of appetite, when it was sinfully gratified, and it ends when a kindred appetite is graciously denied. I invite you to meditate upon the true humanity of our Lord very reverently, and very lovingly. They are these Weep not because the Savior bled, but because your sins made him bleed. 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. Have you repented of sin? 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. So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. Thirst is a common-place misery, such as may happen to peasants or beggars; it is a real pain, and not a thing of a fancy or a nightmare of dreamland. 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. 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. Volume 19, Sermons 1089-1149 (1873) Hide. "I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk; eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved." There is the complete justification of the believer, since the work by which he is accepted is fully accomplished. It was a thirst such as none of us have ever known, for not yet has the death dew condensed upon our brows. Our Lord, however, endured thirst to an extreme degree, for it was the thirst of death which was upon him, and more, it was the thirst of one whose death was not a common one, for "he tasted death for every man." 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. Have you prayed for your fellow men? He pitied the sufferer, but he thought so little of him that he joined in the voice of scorn. The flood of his grief has passed the high-water mark, and began to be assuaged. "And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes," vinegar, and not wine; sourness, and not sweetness. I saw the other day the emblem of a serpent with its tail in its mouth, and if I carry it a little beyond the artist's intention the symbol may set forth appetite swallowing up itself. away with him." He is indeed "Immanuel, God with us" everywhere. Cover it with a cloak? Hail, everlasting King in heaven, thou dost admit to thy paradise whomsoever thou wilt! Amen. 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. 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. I am glad the world expects much from us, and watches us narrowly. 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. Every word, therefore, you see teaches us some grand fundamental doctrine of our blessed faith. Here is the safety of the believer in the hour of his departure, and his instant admission into the presence of his Lord. And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. 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. My well beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: and he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein." Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was born in Essex, England. London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. The words, "I thirst," are a common voice in death chambers. 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." It was most fitting that every word of our Lord upon the cross should be gathered up and preserved. 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. 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? His most fruitful years of ministry were at the New Park Street and later the Metropolitan Tabernacle pulpit in London. Know ye not, beloved, for I speak to those who know the Lord, that ye are crucified together with Christ? He hath traversed the mournful way before thee, and every footprint thou leavest in the sodden soil is stamped side by side with his footmarks. 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. 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. You have, then, no true sympathy for Christ if you have not an earnest sympathy with those who would win souls for Christ. 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. You see there the multitude are leading him forth from the temple. Shall carnal appetites be indulged and bodies pampered when Jesus cried :I thirst"? No man dare call him friend now, or whisper a word of comfort to him. 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. 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. Take up your cross, and go without the camp, following your Lord, even until death. In your chamber let the gasp of your Lord as he said, "I thirst," go through your ears, and as you hear it let it touch your heart and cause you to gird up yourself and say, "Doth he say, 'I thirst'? Perhaps they are your children, the objects of your fondest love, with no interest in Christ, without God and without hope in the world! 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. John Chapter 19 - In-depth, verse-by-verse commentary and Bible study of John chapter 19 in plain English. (1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. The voice of sympathy prevailed over the voice of scorn. There are many other ways in which these words might be read, and they would be found to be all full of instruction. Brother, thirst I pray you to have your workpeople saved. O souls, burdened with sin, rest ye here, and resting live. He must love, it is his nature. 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," ay, this is my soul's word with her Lord. 1 So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. Glorious stoop of our exalted Head! Fathers and confessors, preachers and divines have delighted to dwell upon every syllable of these matchless cries. Read Joo 15:7 bible commentary from Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible by Charles Haddon Spurgeon FREE on BiblePortal.com It is a blow at the fable of purgatory which strikes it to the heart. 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. We ought not to forget the Jews. Mine is adorned with garments crimsoned with his own blood. Though bitter to him in the speaking it will be sweet to us in the hearing, so sweet that all the bitterness of our trials shall be forgotten as we remember the vinegar and gall of which he drank. 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." 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 19:16 . 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." He is exiled from their friendship, too. Jesus paused, and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me; but weep for yourselves and for your children." Home; Origin; Birth; John; Acts; About; JOHN 19 COMMENTARY . And well they may; the son of such noble parents deserves a nation's love. 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. But what shall be your cry when you shall say, "Good God! It was a confirmation of the Scripture testimony with regard to man's natural enmity to God. Let patience have her perfect work. What but for the juice of the vine that he might be refreshed? As for yourselves, thirst after perfection. Thirst is no royal grief, but an evil of universal manhood; Jesus is brother to the poorest and most humble of our race. 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. 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