"He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." You must consider Jesus, and not yourself; turn your eye to Christ, the great substitute for sinners, but never dream of trusting in yourselves. How near akin the thirsty Saviour is to us; let us love him more and more. 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. "And they took Jesus, and led him away." When they had mocked him they pulled off the purple garment he had worn, this rough operation would cause much pain. A strong emphasis in Spurgeon's preaching was God's grace and sovereignty over man's helpless state. Oh! A new edition of Spurgeon's classic devotional using the ESV. "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." Oh! 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. Borrowed from his lips it well suiteth my mouth. He was innocent, and yet he thirsted; shall we marvel if guilty ones are now and then chastened? I have already told you that such was our Lord's mystical desire; let it be ours also. After our Lord Jesus Christ had been formally condemned by Pilate, our text tells us he was led away. The Redeemer's cry of "I thirst" is a solemn lesson of patience to his afflicted. You do suffer. 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." Beloved, let us thirst for the souls of our fellow-men. Romish expositors, who draw upon their prolific fancy for their facts, tell us that he had a rope about his neck with which they roughly dragged him to the tree; this is one of the most probable of their surmises, since it was not unusual for the Romans thus to conduct criminals to the gallows. C.H. Others think that Simon carried the whole of the cross. The sufferings of Christ should make us weep over those who have brought that blood upon their heads. Now, I am not sure that we ought to blame ourselves for this. Commentary on John 19:31-37 (Read John 19:31-37) A trial was made whether Jesus was dead. Largest collection of Spurgeon resources online, including a complete 63 volume set of sermons, audio sermons, books, and quotes. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh." This is man's treatment of his Saviour. 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." 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. "His way was much rougher and darker than mine; Did Christ, my Lord, suffer, and shall I repine?". Jesus said, "I thirst," and this is the complaint of a man. The lictors executed their cruel office upon his shoulders with their rods and scourges, until the stripes had reached the full number. 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. Revelation: The Lectio Continua Expository Commentary on the New Testament (Beeke) $30.00 $40.00. So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. Thirst is no royal grief, but an evil of universal manhood; Jesus is brother to the poorest and most humble of our race. Includes cross references, questions, verse by verse commentary, outline, and applications on John chapter 19 for small groups. 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. 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. Some of you will! My Lord is not altogether without his espoused one. May we not despise our loaded table while he is neglected? 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. The spear broke up the very fountains of life; no human body could survive such a wound. It is not fit that he should live." That little rising ground, which perhaps was called Golgotha, the place of a skull, from its somewhat resembling the crown of a man's skull, was the common place of execution. 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. As not a bone of him shall be broken, so not a word shall be lost. 2 And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, . 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?". Who among us would not willingly pour out his soul unto death if he might but give refreshment to the Lord? 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. Did I not describe last Sabbath the knotted scourges which fell upon the Saviours back? 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. For a biblical, reformed, and historic collection of commentaries, the Geneva Series is unsurpassed. You have seen Jesus led away by his enemies; so shall you be dragged away by fiends to the place appointed for you. Your heir of royalty is magnificently drawn along the streets in his stately chariot, sitting at his ease: my princely sufferer walks with weary feet, marking the road with crimson drops; not borne, but bearing; not carried, but carrying his cross. Commentators like Thomas Manton and John Calvin are represented in this series. And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou ? Let each of us say "Tis all my business here below To cry, Behold the Lamb!" John 1:30-31. You have been ill, and you have been parched with fever as he was, and then you too have gasped out "I thirst." They place the cross upon Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country. Cover it with a cloak? 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." John 1 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries; John 1:12 Multiple Older Commentaries on this verse; . 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. Let patience have her perfect work. The Lord bless you, for Jesus' own sake. Amen. See, it has been blackened with bruises, and stained with the shameful spittle of them that derided him. Our Lord is the Maker of the ocean and the waters that are above the firmament: it is his hand that stays or opens the bottles of heaven, and sendeth rain upon the evil and upon the good. These are awful words, but they are not mine; they are the very words of God in Scripture. London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. 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. . 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. Jesus paused, and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me; but weep for yourselves and for your children." 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. He is thirsty still, you see, for our poor love, and surely we cannot deny it to him. 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 Even as the hart panteth after the water brooks, our souls would thirst after thee, O God. 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. "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." What a cataract of immortal souls dashes downwards to the pit every hour! It is the opinion of some commentators that Simon only carried one end of the cross, and not the whole of it. 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. ( John 19:1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. 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. The last word but one, "It is finished." 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. July 2nd, 1882 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892) "I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them." John 17:26 . 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! When Jesus had spoken these words, He went out with His disciples over the Brook Kidron, where there was a garden, which He and His disciples entered. Even now to a large extent the true Christian is like a Pariah, lower than the lowest caste, in the judgment of some. I am glad the world expects much from us, and watches us narrowly. We can never forget the painful scenes of which we have been witness, when we have watched the dissolving of the human frame. But power is wanted to dash down those idols, to overcome the hosts of error; where is it to be found? The extreme tension produced a burning feverishness. We see how the Holy Spirit wants us to pray. Think of the millions in this dark world! (6) John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the sour wine, He said, " It is finished! This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. I think that Roman soldier meant well, at least well for a rough warrior with his little light and knowledge. I have shown you, believer, your position; let me now show you your service. Hunger and thirst after righteousness, for you shall be filled. Will ye raise a clamor of tumultuous shouting? 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." All nations gathered about my Lord, both great and mean men clustered around his person. "'Twere you my sins, my cruel sins, His chief tormentors were; Each of my grimes became a nail, And unbelief the spear. Mark you, the ransom of men was all paid by Christ; that was redemption by price. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. (7) Luke 23:46 And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, "Father, INTO THY HANDS I COMMIT MY SPIRIT. 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. Conceal your religion? 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. Shall it ever be a hardship to be denied the satisfying draught when he said, "I thirst." 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. He is indeed "Immanuel, God with us" everywhere. I claim for the procession of my Lord an interest superior to the pageant you are now so anxiously expecting. 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. 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. Holy Scripture remains the basis of our faith, established by every word and act of our Redeemer. 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. It is that he may eat and drink with you, for he promises that if we open to him he will enter in and sup with us and we with him. As Christ went through the streets, a great multitude looked on. 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. 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!" Remember that, and expect to suffer. Well, beloved, the cross we have to carry is only for a little while at most. 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. 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." II. To-day I invite your attention to another Prince, marching in another fashion through his metropolis. Bearing upon his back the sin of all his people, the offering goes without the camp. This was intended at once to proclaim his guilt and intimate his doom. John 19:28 . The flood of his grief has passed the high-water mark, and began to be assuaged. 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. Do not let us forget the infinite distance between the Lord of glory on his throne and the Crucified dried up with thirst. Partner with StudyLight.org as God uses us to make a difference for those displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine. Lloyd-Jones opens John 19:31-37 to answer that very question. Universal manhood, left to itself, rejects, crucifies, and mocks the Christ of God. It is not sorrow over Rome, but Jerusalem. Was not the Redeemer led thither to aggravate his shame? He goes forth, then, bearing his cross. Certain philosophers have said that they love the pursuit of truth even better than the knowledge of truth. And what makes him love us so? Have we not often given him vinegar to drink? We should love the cross, and count it very dear, because it works out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. (John 19:11) Jesus answered, . 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. Come let us pour out full flagons, until his joy is fulfilled in us. 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. Shake off the thought, any of you who suppose that God will have pity on you because you have endured affliction. He wants you brother, he wants you, dear sister, he longs to have you wholly to himself. 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. We ought all to have a longing for conversions. 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. 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. No longer sink below the brim; But overflow, and pour me down A living and life-giving stream.". Then comes the "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" He thirsted for water doubtless, but his soul was thirsty in a higher sense; indeed, he seems only to have spoken that the Scriptures might be fulfilled as to the offering him vinegar. Read Joo 15:7 bible commentary from Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible by Charles Haddon Spurgeon FREE on BiblePortal.com "And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes," vinegar, and not wine; sourness, and not sweetness. What doth he say? What learn we here as we see Christ led forth? You may die so, you may die now. John 1 19-51 Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 1:19-51 John 1:19. III. 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. John preached a sacrificial Saviour, a sin-bearing Saviour, a sin-atoning Saviour. Appetite was the door of sin, and therefore in that point our Lord was put to pain. Oh! You have, then, no true sympathy for Christ if you have not an earnest sympathy with those who would win souls for Christ. While other religions create what appear to be worship-filled gatherings, they are empty and void of fact. He calls for that: will you not give it to him? IV. I cannot think that natural thirst was all he felt. Shall carnal appetites be indulged and bodies pampered when Jesus cried :I thirst"? Here you see how the mortal flesh had to share in the agony of the inward spirit. You and I have nothing else to preach. She craved full flagons of love though she was already overpowered by it. 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