God forbid! Jesus was proved to be really man, because he suffered the pains which belong to manhood. Holy Scripture remains the basis of our faith, established by every word and act of our Redeemer. Today! It is the empty cup placed under the flowing stream; the penniless hand held out for heavenly alms." . Take up your cross daily and follow him. But ye ask me where is the spouse, the king's daughter fair and beautiful? 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. 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. The great agony of being forsaken by God was over, and he felt faint when the strain was withdrawn. Some of you will! what a black thought crosses our mind! And they asked him, What then? So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. If you will look, there is the mark of his blood-red shoulder upon that heavy cross. We thought sometimes that we loved him as we heard the story of his death, but we did not change our lives for his sake, nor put our trust in him, and so we gave him vinegar to drink. He is indeed "Immanuel, God with us" everywhere. Let all your love be his. 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. May the Holy Ghost work in you the complete pattern of Christ crucified, and to him shall be praise for ever and ever. Those pictures which represent our Lord as wearing the crown of thorns upon the tree have therefore at least some scriptural warrant. The voice of sympathy prevailed over the voice of scorn. You must consider Jesus, and not yourself; turn your eye to Christ, the great substitute for sinners, but never dream of trusting in yourselves. The words, "I thirst," are a common voice in death chambers. John 18:19-40 - Glory on Trial A. 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. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh." III. 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. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible. V. Lastly, the cry of "I thirst" is to us THE PATTERN OF OUR DEATH WITH HIM. Will your Prince be sumptuously arrayed? 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 woes which broke the Savior's heart must crush theirs. Partner with StudyLight.org as God uses us to make a difference for those displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine. 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. "I thirst" meant that his heart was thirsting to save men. 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. If not, may that picture of Christ fainting in the streets lead you to do so this morning. 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. IV. 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. For a biblical, reformed, and historic collection of commentaries, the Geneva Series is unsurpassed. Will ye raise a clamor of tumultuous shouting? A refined and heavenly appetite, a craving for our Lord. 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. Ah, beloved, our Lord was so truly man that all our griefs remind us of him: the next time we are thirsty we may gaze upon him; and whenever we see a friend faint and thirsting while dying we may behold our Lord dimly, but truly, mirrored in his members. As for myself, I would grow more and more insatiable after my divine Lord, and when I have much of him I would still cry for more; and then for more, and still for more. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it. May the Holy Ghost help us to hear a fourth tuning of the dolorous music, "I thirst." Universal manhood, left to itself, rejects, crucifies, and mocks the Christ of God. Conceal your religion? Perhaps they are your children, the objects of your fondest love, with no interest in Christ, without God and without hope in the world! 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. It is calculated that one soul passes from time into eternity every time the clock ticks! Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. John 19:28 . John 1 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries; John 1:12 Multiple Older Commentaries on this verse; . Thirst is no royal grief, but an evil of universal manhood; Jesus is brother to the poorest and most humble of our race. What, then, dear friends, should be the sorrows excited by a view of Christ's sufferings? 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." 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 saith, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock." We care, however, far more for the fact that he went forth carrying his cross upon his shoulders. I am not the One anointed of God to save mankind. John 1:21. The Redeemer's cry of "I thirst" is a solemn lesson of patience to his afflicted. I claim for the procession of my Lord an interest superior to the pageant you are now so anxiously expecting. Revelation: The Lectio Continua Expository Commentary on the New Testament (Beeke) $30.00 $40.00. John 19:28 J.R. Thomson This is both the shortest of all the dying utterances of Jesus, and it is the one which is most closely related to himself. There are many other ways in which these words might be read, and they would be found to be all full of instruction. Includes cross references, questions, verse by verse commentary, outline, and applications on John chapter 19 for small groups. 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. 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. 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." Cheerfully accept this burden, ye servants of the Lord. 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. Will your Prince be decorated with honors? How harshly grate the cruel syllables, "Crucify him! Hunger and thirst after righteousness, for you shall be filled. 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. 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. While other religions create what appear to be worship-filled gatherings, they are empty and void of fact. 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. 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. The last of his last words is also taken from the Scriptures, and shows where his mind was feeding. 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. 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. 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. 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. Scripture provides a wealth . You have been ill, and you have been parched with fever as he was, and then you too have gasped out "I thirst." First, we shall look upon them as THE ENSIGN OF HIS TRUE HUMANITY. (7) Luke 23:46 And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, "Father, INTO THY HANDS I COMMIT MY SPIRIT. Let us muse upon the fact that Jesus was conducted without the gates of the city. The high places of earth's worship and honor are not for us. 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. 1. A carnal appetite of the body, the satisfaction of the desire for food, first brought us down under the first Adam, and now the pang of thirst, the denial of what the body craved for, restores us to our place. 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. 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. "Verily I say unto thee, to-day shalt thou be with me in paradise" this is the Lord Jesus in kingly power, opening with the key of David a door which none can shut, admitting into the gates of heaven the poor soul who had confessed him on the tree. As Spurgeon puts it "Faith is described as 'receiving' Jesus. Thoughtful men have drawn a wealth of meaning from them, and in so doing have arranged them into different groups, and placed them under several heads. For him they have no tolerance. C.H. 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. Read Joo 15:7 bible commentary from Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible by Charles Haddon Spurgeon FREE on BiblePortal.com 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. Well, beloved, the cross we have to carry is only for a little while at most. As you look at the cross upon his shoulders does it represent your sin? Come let us pour out full flagons, until his joy is fulfilled in us. 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. Your Prince is surrounded by a multitude of friends; hark how they joyously welcome him! When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid: It shows he was afraid all along the coward the vacillating coward and now a fresh superstition seizes upon him. sinner, if God hides his face from Christ, how much less will he spare you! 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 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." 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. (1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. O my hearers, beware of praising Jesus and denying his atoning sacrifice. crucify him!" It is not sorrow over Rome, but Jerusalem. 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." It is so with each one of you? 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. Neither in torture of body nor in sadness of heart are we deserted by our Lord; his line is parallel with ours. We can never forget the painful scenes of which we have been witness, when we have watched the dissolving of the human frame. You may think that this remark is not needed; but I have met with one or two cases where it was required; and I have often said I would preach a sermon for even one person, and, therefore, I make this remark, even though it should rebuke but one. 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." Do not let us forget the infinite distance between the Lord of glory on his throne and the Crucified dried up with thirst. She craved full flagons of love though she was already overpowered by it. "Wist ye not," said he, while yet a boy, "that I must be about my Father's business?" 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." O Lord Jesus, we love thee and we worship thee! Even when man compassionates the sufferings of Christ, and man would have ceased to be human if he did not, still he scorns him; the very cup which man gives to Jesus is at once scorn and pity, for "the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel." 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. Can they be compared to generous wine? 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! Have you prayed for your fellow men? ( John 19:1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. 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." 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. 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. 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. Fathers and confessors, preachers and divines have delighted to dwell upon every syllable of these matchless cries. The extreme tension produced a burning feverishness. " And having said this, He breathed His last. Nor is this all. Oh, wondrous substitution of the just for the unjust, of God for man, of the perfect Christ for us guilty, hell-deserving rebels. Alas, man is the slave and the dupe of Satan, and a black-hearted traitor to his God. 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. 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." Amid all the anguish of his spirit his last words prove him to have remained fully self-possessed, true to his forgiving nature, true to his kingly office, true to his filial relationship, true to his God, true to his love of the written word, true to his glorious work, and true to his faith in his Father. 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. Others think that Simon carried the whole of the cross. And well they may; the son of such noble parents deserves a nation's love. Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was born in Essex, England. High in the air ye bid your banners wave about the heir of England's throne, but how shall ye rival the banner of the sacred cross, that day for the first time borne among the sons of men. Betrayal and arrest in the garden. You see there the multitude are leading him forth from the temple. Mine is adorned with garments crimsoned with his own blood. Those once highly favored people of God who cursed themselves with, "His blood be upon us and upon our children," ought to make us mourn when we think of their present degradation. Do not let the picture vanish till you have satisfied yourselves once for all that Christ was here the substitute for you. Simon was an African; he came from Cyrene. What whips of steel for you, what knots of burning wire for you, when conscience shall smite you, when the law shall scourge you with its ten-thonged whip! Jesus was deserted of God; and if he, who was only imputedly a sinner, was deserted, how much more shall you be? 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." Did he not tell his disciples, "I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished?" So were the streets of Jerusalem; for great multitudes followed him. April 14th, 1878 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). "I thirst, but not as once I did, The vain delights of earth to share; Thy wounds, Emmanuel, all forbid That I should seek my pleasures there. But how vast was the disparity! Angels cannot suffer thirst. And yet he placed himself for our sakes into a position of shame and suffering where none would wait upon him, but when he cried, "I thirst," they gave him vinegar to drink. Think of the millions in this dark world! All this is a blessed clog upon us, and a means of keeping us more near the Lord. II. Although Simon carried Christ's cross, he did not volunteer to do it, but they compelled him. There are no passages in all the public ministry of Jesus so tender as those which have regard to Jerusalem. Amen. Beeke, Joel R. & Thompson, Nick. 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. 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. The Holy Spirit took special care that each of the sacred utterances should be fittingly recorded. My heart shall not be content till he is all in all to me, and I am altogether lost in him. No, no; we must not make a cross of our own. Was not the Redeemer led thither to aggravate his shame? We see how the Holy Spirit wants us to pray. 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. London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. There is one way by which you can tell whether he carried your sin or not. 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?". Are you lukewarm? As Christ went through the streets, a great multitude looked on. Jesus, being a man, escaped none of the ills which are allotted to man in death. Let me show what I think he meant. "Deliver him to the tormentors," was the word of the king in the parable; it shall be fulfilled to you "Depart ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels." Let us magnify and bless our Redeemer's name. 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. 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. You carry the cross after him. Though Simon had to bear the cross for a very little while, it gave him lasting honor. Is not this a fertile field of thought? Trust in the Son of God and you shall never die. 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