The high places of earth's worship and honor are not for us. The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. "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. Hail, ye despised children of the sun, ye follow first after the King in the march of woe. Conceal your religion? 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." Glorious stoop of our exalted Head! 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. Simon was an African; he came from Cyrene. There is the complete justification of the believer, since the work by which he is accepted is fully accomplished. Amen. Now, I am not sure that we ought to blame ourselves for this. For the thousands of eyes which shall gaze upon the youthful Prince, I offer the gaze of men and angels. 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. 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. Jesus took the wrath; Jesus carried the sin; and now all that you endure is but for his sake, that you may be conformed unto his image, and may aid in gathering his people into his family. 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. Therefore while he thirsts give him to drink this day. "His way was much rougher and darker than mine; Did Christ, my Lord, suffer, and shall I repine?". 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. 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. 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 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. 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. 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? "To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise." But power is wanted to dash down those idols, to overcome the hosts of error; where is it to be found? May the Holy Spirit often lead us to glean therein. London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. Nay more; he is banished from their society, as if he were a leper whose breath would be infectious whose presence would scatter plague. 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!" This is man's treatment of his Saviour. John 19 Commentary John chapter 19 commentary Bible study. 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." The soldiery mocked and insulted him in every way that cruelty and scorn could devise. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh." It is not sorrow over Rome, but Jerusalem. Christ was spit upon with shame; sinner, what shame will be yours! For him they have no tolerance. Did I not describe last Sabbath the knotted scourges which fell upon the Saviours back? Neither in torture of body nor in sadness of heart are we deserted by our Lord; his line is parallel with ours. The whole universe shall hiss you; angels shall be ashamed of you; your own friends, yes, your sainted mother, shall say "Amen" to your condemnation; and those who loved you best shall sit as assessors with Christ to judge you and condemn you! "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" good God! sinner, if God hides his face from Christ, how much less will he spare you! Angels cannot suffer thirst. 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. 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. 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. 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." Say not that the comparison is strained, for in a moment I will withdraw it and present the contrast. John 19:16 . Complain not, then. To-day I invite your attention to another Prince, marching in another fashion through his metropolis. 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. 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. It is calculated that one soul passes from time into eternity every time the clock ticks! This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. 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. I cannot think that natural thirst was all he felt. He must love, it is his nature. May the Holy Ghost help us to hear a fourth tuning of the dolorous music, "I thirst." 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. Revelation: The Lectio Continua Expository Commentary on the New Testament (Beeke) $30.00 $40.00. 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! Your path runs hard by that of your Master. You have seen Jesus led away by his enemies; so shall you be dragged away by fiends to the place appointed for you. We see how the Holy Spirit wants us to pray. Borrowed from his lips it well suiteth my mouth. Though Simon had to bear the cross for a very little while, it gave him lasting honor. V. Lastly, the cry of "I thirst" is to us THE PATTERN OF OUR DEATH WITH HIM. For several Sabbath mornings my mind has been directed into subjects which I might fitly call the deep things of God. 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. There are no passages in all the public ministry of Jesus so tender as those which have regard to Jerusalem. Our Lord Jesus came forth, willing to be exposed to their scorn. London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. 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. This was intended at once to proclaim his guilt and intimate his doom. Let the sympathy of Christ, then, be fully believed in and deeply appreciated, since he said, "I thirst." Well might the Master say, "Weep not for me, but for yourselves." "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. One would have said, If he were thirsty he would not tell us, for all the clouds and rains would be glad to refresh his brow, and the brooks and streams would joyously flow at his feet. Let all your love be his. The Christian faith and motives for Christian worship are based on the certainty of facts. Hail, everlasting King in heaven, thou dost admit to thy paradise whomsoever thou wilt! 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. Rutherford used words somewhat to this effect, "I thirst for my Lord and this is joy; a joy which no man taketh from me. And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe. Oh I raise the question, and be not satisfied unless you can answer it most positively in the affirmative. If not, bestir yourselves at once. 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!" John Chapter 19 - In-depth, verse-by-verse commentary and Bible study of John chapter 19 in plain English. Oh, shame that men should find so much applause for Princes and none for the King of kings. Perhaps they are your children, the objects of your fondest love, with no interest in Christ, without God and without hope in the world! There have been times, and the days may come again, when faithfulness to Christ has entailed exclusion from what is called "society." Who among us would not willingly pour out his soul unto death if he might but give refreshment to the Lord? As you look at the cross upon his shoulders does it represent your sin? But my Prince is hated without a cause. We will now take the text in a third way, and may the Spirit of God instruct us once again. crucify him!" Lloyd-Jones opens John 19:31-37 to answer that very question. 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. No sufferings of ours have anything to do with the atonement of sin. There are many other ways in which these words might be read, and they would be found to be all full of instruction. 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. There are more unlikely things than that you will be dead before next Sunday. We do not know what may have been the color of alimony face, but it was most likely black. I do not know how far it was from Pilate's house to the Mount of Doom. Shall it ever be a hardship to be denied the satisfying draught when he said, "I thirst." What, then, dear friends, should be the sorrows excited by a view of Christ's sufferings? Come let us pour out full flagons, until his joy is fulfilled in us. 1089 - The Man Greatly Beloved . Weep not for him, but for these. So were the streets of Jerusalem; for great multitudes followed him. He had been all night in agony, he had spent the early morning at the hall of Caiaphas, he had been hurried, as I described to you last Sunday, from Caiaphas to Pilate, from Pilate to Herod, and from Herod back again to Pilate; he had, therefore, but little strength left, and you will not wonder that by-and-bye we find him staggering beneath his load, and that another is called to bear it with him. That man is a fool and deserves no pity, who purposely excites the disgust of other people. It is done. 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." 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. It showed that he had laid down his life of himself. Mark you, the ransom of men was all paid by Christ; that was redemption by price. 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. First, we shall look upon them as THE ENSIGN OF HIS TRUE HUMANITY. The Geneva Series of Commentaries include historic commentaries on biblical books written by some of the great theologians in the history of the church. O souls, burdened with sin, rest ye here, and resting live. 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. Nor is this all. 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. How near akin the thirsty Saviour is to us; let us love him more and more. Brother, thirst I pray you to have your workpeople saved. No, no; we must not make a cross of our own. "He that taketh not up his cross and followeth not after me," says Christ, "is not worthy of me." 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. I am not the One anointed of God to save mankind. John 1:21. 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." Read Joo 15:7 bible commentary from Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible by Charles Haddon Spurgeon FREE on BiblePortal.com 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. 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. Metaphorically understood, thirst is dissatisfaction, the craving of the mind for something which it has not, but which it pines for. In that cry there is reconciliation to God. 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. It is the empty cup placed under the flowing stream; the penniless hand held out for heavenly alms." . It was the common place of death. He is not allowed to worship with them. 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. There is a fulness of meaning in each utterance which no man shall be able fully to bring forth, and when combined they make up a vast deep of thought, which no human line can fathom. Oh! 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. This was the act too of man at his best, when he is moved to pity; for it seems clear that he who lifted up the wet sponge to the Redeemer's lips, did it in compassion. See, brethren, where sin begins, and mark that there it ends. Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 19 John 19:1-16 John 19:1. His most fruitful years of ministry were at the New Park Street and later the Metropolitan Tabernacle pulpit in London. Will your Prince be sumptuously arrayed? 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? 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. Alas, man is the slave and the dupe of Satan, and a black-hearted traitor to his God. Jesus paused, and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me; but weep for yourselves and for your children." 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. I do not think we should seek after needless persecution. 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. "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani," what an awful shriek! Certainly it is so with you; you do but carry the light end of the cross; Christ bore the heavier end. 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. "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." It is not fit that he should live." Jesus was proved to be really man, because he suffered the pains which belong to manhood. 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. Then the goat was led away by a fit man into the wilderness, and it carried away the sins of the people, so that if they were sought for, they could not be found. John 19:3. John 19:1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. "After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst." "The sea is his, and he made it," and all fountains and springs are of his digging. " And He bowed His head, and gave up His spirit. A refined and heavenly appetite, a craving for our Lord. "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." 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? Let us magnify and bless our Redeemer's name. He calls for that: will you not give it to him? 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. Betrayal and arrest in the garden. III. V. I close with THE SAVIOR'S WARNING QUESTION "If they do these things in the green tree, what will they do in the dry?". It began with the mouth of appetite, when it was sinfully gratified, and it ends when a kindred appetite is graciously denied. 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. They are created in the minds of men. John 19:16 . We see in Simon's carrying the cross a picture of what the Church is to do throughout all generations. Your Prince is surrounded by a multitude of friends; hark how they joyously welcome 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." 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. Every word, therefore, you see teaches us some grand fundamental doctrine of our blessed faith. Think of that! 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. We shall by the assistance of the Holy Spirit try to regard these words of our Saviour in a five-fold light. He knew once how to turn water into wine, and in matchless love he has often turned our sour drink-offerings into something sweet to himself, though in themselves, methinks, they have been the juice of sour grapes, sharp enough to set his teeth on edge. The flood of his grief has passed the high-water mark, and began to be assuaged. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it. Our glorious Samson had been fighting our foes; heaps upon heaps he had slain his thousands, and now like Samson he was sore athirst. How they led him forth we do not know. Behold, my King is not without his crown alas, a crown of thorns set with ruby drops of blood! "And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes," vinegar, and not wine; sourness, and not sweetness. Rutherford says, "Whenever Christ gives us a cross, he cries, 'Halves, my love.'" May God deliver you! 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." As not a bone of him shall be broken, so not a word shall be lost. Oh! "Wist ye not," said he, while yet a boy, "that I must be about my Father's business?" It was one of Death's castles; here he stored his gloomiest trophies; he was the grim lord of that stronghold. 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." How truly man he is; he is, indeed, "bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh," for he bears our infirmities. 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 derived spiritual refreshment from the winning of that women's heart to himself. And said, Hail, King of the Jews!_ 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. There is bread upon your table to-day, and there will be at least a cup of cold water to refresh you. Here is the safety of the believer in the hour of his departure, and his instant admission into the presence of his Lord. 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. 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. (7) Luke 23:46 And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, "Father, INTO THY HANDS I COMMIT MY SPIRIT. As for yourselves, thirst after perfection. He died in less time than persons crucified commonly did. Well, beloved, the cross we have to carry is only for a little while at most. Well, then, what means this cry, "I thirst," but this, that we should thirst too? 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, . Come, bring him your warm heart, and let him drink from that purified chalice as much as he wills. 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. 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." His doom the contrast by price can not think we should thirst?... 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