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. Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was born in Essex, England. Let us muse upon the fact that Jesus was conducted without the gates of the city. 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. 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. "I thirst," is his human body tormented by grievous pain. So he was thirsting then. 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. and they smote him with their hands. 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. We see in Simon's carrying the cross a picture of what the Church is to do throughout all generations. I am glad the world expects much from us, and watches us narrowly. 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. It is a blow at the fable of purgatory which strikes it to the heart. He is indeed "Immanuel, God with us" everywhere. 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. Some of you will! 1 So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and they put on Him a purple robe. Pilate, as we reminded you, scourged our Savior according to the common custom of Roman courts. 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. I cannot think that natural thirst was all he felt. Ah, that I cannot tell, except his own great love. Beloved, can you say he carried your sin? My Lord is not altogether without his espoused one. Oh, shame that men should find so much applause for Princes and none for the King of kings. 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." 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 (6) John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the sour wine, He said, " It is finished! 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? Trust in the Son of God and you shall never die. They are these Weep not because the Savior bled, but because your sins made him bleed. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. If not, may that picture of Christ fainting in the streets lead you to do so this morning. To-day I invite your attention to another Prince, marching in another fashion through his metropolis. 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. "Wist ye not," said he, while yet a boy, "that I must be about my Father's business?" 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?". 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. John 19:28 . 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. He wants you brother, he wants you, dear sister, he longs to have you wholly to himself. Save your tears for them; Christ asks them not in sympathy for himself. 1. good God! A refined and heavenly appetite, a craving for our Lord. 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. For him they have no tolerance. He said, "I thirst," in order that one might bring him drink, even as you have wished to have a cooling draught handed to you when you could not help yourself. 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." Coming fresh from the country, not knowing what was going on, he joined with the mob, and they made him carry the cross. May the Holy Spirit often lead us to glean therein. He came to save, and man denied him hospitality: at the first there was no room for him at the inn, and at the last there was not one cool cup of water for him to drink; but when he thirsted they gave him vinegar to drink. You have, then, no true sympathy for Christ if you have not an earnest sympathy with those who would win souls for Christ. I fear me, beloved, I fear me that the most of us if we ever do carry it, carry it by compulsion, at least when it first comes on to our shoulders we do not like it, and would fain run from it, but the world compels us to bear Christ's cross. After preaching his first sermon at the age of 16, he became pastor of the church in Waterbeach at the age of 17. souls, I do beseech you, by the agonies of Christ, by his wounds and by his blood, do not bring upon yourselves the curse; do not bear in your own persons the awful wrath to come! London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. How has it been with you? John 1 19-51 Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 1:19-51 John 1:19. "'Twere you my sins, my cruel sins, His chief tormentors were; Each of my grimes became a nail, And unbelief the spear. He would have sacrificed himself to save his countrymen, so heartily did he desire their eternal welfare. But how vast was the disparity! By contrast, the Christian faith is built on the . Beloved, if our Master said, "I thirst," do we expect every day to drink of streams from Lebanon? Jesus is therefore hunted out of the city, beyond the gate, with the will and force of his oven nation, but he journeys not against his own will; even as the lamb goeth as willingly to the shambles as to the meadow, so doth Christ cheerfully take up his cross and go without the camp. He is not allowed to worship with them. "I thirst," ay, this is my soul's word with her Lord. Fathers and confessors, preachers and divines have delighted to dwell upon every syllable of these matchless cries. We ought not to forget the Jews. My heart shall not be content till he is all in all to me, and I am altogether lost in him. "I thirst" meant that his heart was thirsting to save men. Read Joo 15:7 bible commentary from Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible by Charles Haddon Spurgeon FREE on BiblePortal.com 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. In that cry there is reconciliation to God. 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. Did not the prophecies say that man would give to his incarnate God gall to eat and vinegar to drink? 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. This was intended at once to proclaim his guilt and intimate his doom. Nor is this all. Then they said, "Hail, King of the Jews!" And they struck Him with their hands. 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." 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!" Thirst is no royal grief, but an evil of universal manhood; Jesus is brother to the poorest and most humble of our race. Let me show what I think he meant. What learn we here as we see Christ led forth? The high places of earth's worship and honor are not for us. (John 19:11) Jesus answered, . These are silken days, and religion fights not so stern a battle. John 19 Commentary John chapter 19 commentary Bible study. 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. And said, Hail, King of the Jews! Even as the hart panteth after the water brooks, our souls would thirst after thee, O God. She craved full flagons of love though she was already overpowered by it. 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." Here is the safety of the believer in the hour of his departure, and his instant admission into the presence of his Lord. He did not spare his Son the stripes. 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. 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. 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. II. 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? 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? Oh! We used to melt when we heard about his sufferings, but we did not turn from our sins. Brother, thirst I pray you to have your workpeople saved. 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. As he commends his spirit into the Father's hand, so does he bring all believers nigh to God, and henceforth we are in the hand of the Father, who is greater than all, and none shall pluck us thence. You see there the multitude are leading him forth from the temple. We are to reckon upon all this, and should the worst befal us, it is to be no strange thing to us. Do you not remember how that thirst of his was strong in the old days of the prophet? What was he looking for from his vineyard and its winepress? Conservative, but not too much depth. He can receive vinegar, but not lukewarm love. Shall carnal appetites be indulged and bodies pampered when Jesus cried :I thirst"? If we be true to our Master we shall soon lose the friendship of the world. The words, "I thirst," are a common voice in death chambers. What if the bread be dry, what if the medicine be nauseous; yet for his thirst there was no relief but gall and vinegar, and dare we complain? He calls for that: will you not give it to him? 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. Cheerfully accept this burden, ye servants of the Lord. As for yourselves, thirst after perfection. Bearing upon his back the sin of all his people, the offering goes without the camp. But ye ask me where is the spouse, the king's daughter fair and beautiful? 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