He must love his chosen whom he has once begun to love, for he is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. II. We all know that a different dress will often raise a doubt about the identity of an individual; but lo! This hint only. 'Tis his cross, and he goes before you as a shepherd goes before his sheep. Will your thoroughfares be thronged? Jesus thirsted, then let us thirst in this dry and thirsty land where no water is. Ah, that I cannot tell, except his own great love. It was one of Death's castles; here he stored his gloomiest trophies; he was the grim lord of that stronghold. This was the homage which the Son of God received from men; harmless and gentle, he came here with no purpose but that of doing good, and this is how mankind treated him. 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." I have shown you, believer, your position; let me now show you your service. How harshly grate the cruel syllables, "Crucify him! "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." Brother, thirst to have your children save. 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. She craved full flagons of love though she was already overpowered by it. O Lord Jesus, we love thee and we worship thee! 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. 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. So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. 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. _Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. Did not the prophecies say that man would give to his incarnate God gall to eat and vinegar to drink? Holy Scripture remains the basis of our faith, established by every word and act of our Redeemer. Mine is adorned with garments crimsoned with his own blood. Remember, dear friends, that what Christ suffered for us, these unregenerate ones must suffer for themselves, except they put their trust in Christ. Rutherford used words somewhat to this effect, "I thirst for my Lord and this is joy; a joy which no man taketh from me. John 19:16 . "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." Dear friends, we must remember that, although no one died on the cross with Christ, for atonement must be executed by a solitary Savior, yet another person did carry the cross for Christ; for this world, while redeemed by price by Christ, and by Christ alone, is to be redeemed by divine power manifested in the sufferings and labors of the saints as well as those of Christ. Our great hero, the destroyer of Death, bearded the lion in his den, slew the monster in his own castle, and dragged the dragon captive from his own den. First, they teach and confirm many of the doctrines of our holy faith. 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. 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. Are you so frozen at heart that not a cup of cold water can be melted for Jesus? Rutherford says, "Whenever Christ gives us a cross, he cries, 'Halves, my love.'" 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! 2 And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, . Shake off the thought, any of you who suppose that God will have pity on you because you have endured affliction. As you look at the cross upon his shoulders does it represent your sin? I do not know how far it was from Pilate's house to the Mount of Doom. There is one way by which you can tell whether he carried your sin or not. Let patience have her perfect work. My heart shall not be content till he is all in all to me, and I am altogether lost in him. (1-3) Jesus enters the garden, followed by Judas and his troops. 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. 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 this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou ? Did we not do so years ago before we knew him? May we not be half ashamed of our pleasures when he says, "I thirst"? Let this mind be in you also. See, it has been blackened with bruises, and stained with the shameful spittle of them that derided him. 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. The Geneva Series of Commentaries include historic commentaries on biblical books written by some of the great theologians in the history of the church. 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." "I thirst," is his human body tormented by grievous pain. 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. " And having said this, He breathed His last. We can never forget the painful scenes of which we have been witness, when we have watched the dissolving of the human frame. C.H. They are created in the minds of men. Shall the servant be above his Master, or the disciple above his Lord? In the multitude there was a sparse sprinkling of tender-hearted women, probably those who had been healed, or whose children had been blessed by him. 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. John 1 19-51 Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 1:19-51 John 1:19. Our Lord in his death-cries, as in all else, was perfection itself. 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 arrow which has lately pierced thee, my brother, was first stained with his blood. How great the love which led him to such a condescension as this! 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. A refined and heavenly appetite, a craving for our Lord. Appetite was the door of sin, and therefore in that point our Lord was put to pain. You have, then, no true sympathy for Christ if you have not an earnest sympathy with those who would win souls for Christ. As Christ went through the streets, a great multitude looked on. Who among us would not willingly pour out his soul unto death if he might but give refreshment to the Lord? Here is the forgiveness of sin free forgiveness in answer to the Saviour's plea. Alas, my brethren, I cannot say much on the score of man's cruelty to our Lord without touching myself and you. It was a confirmation of the Scripture testimony with regard to man's natural enmity to God. Although Simon carried Christ's cross, he did not volunteer to do it, but they compelled him. Your path runs hard by that of your Master. It is not likely that we shall be able to worship with their worship. away with him." How truly man he is; he is, indeed, "bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh," for he bears our infirmities. "We, whose proneness to forget Thy dear love, on Olivet Bathed thy brow with bloody sweat; "We whose sins, with awful power, Like a cloud did o'er thee lower, In that God-excluding hour; "We, who still, in thought and dead, Often hold the bitter reed To thee, in thy time of need.". 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?". Call to mind his complaint in the fifth chapter of Isaiah, "Now will I sing to my well beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. I have now a third picture to present to you CHRIST AND HIS MOURNERS. They force him without the walls, and are not satisfied till they have rid themselves of his obnoxious presence. O souls, burdened with sin, rest ye here, and resting live. John 19:28 . I cannot think that natural thirst was all he felt. Conceal your religion? John 19:7-8. 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." He can receive vinegar, but not lukewarm love. 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. Now Christ standing in the stead of the ungodly suffers thirst as a type of his enduring the result of sin. 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. wherein we see the Son of man in the gentleness of a son caring for his bereaved mother. If you will look, there is the mark of his blood-red shoulder upon that heavy cross. No sufferings of ours have anything to do with the atonement of sin. 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. The last expiring word in which he commended his spirit to his Father, is the note of acceptance for himself and for us all. We used to melt when we heard about his sufferings, but we did not turn from our sins. Shall it ever be a hardship to be denied the satisfying draught when he said, "I thirst." 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. "Wist ye not," said he, while yet a boy, "that I must be about my Father's business?" 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. John 18:19-40 - Glory on Trial A. 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. NOTICE the connection, or you will miss the meaning of the words; for at first sight it looks as if our Saviour taught us that it John:6:29 The Marvellous Magnet 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. This is a kind of sweet whereof if a man hath much he must have more, and when he hath more he is under a still greater necessity to receive more, and so on, his appetite for ever growing by that which it feeds upon, till he is filled with all the fulness of God. 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." is the fourth cry, and it illustrates the penalty endured by our Substitute when he bore our sins, and so was forsaken of his God. 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. The spear broke up the very fountains of life; no human body could survive such a wound. The extreme tension produced a burning feverishness. Cover it with a cloak? Oh! 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. 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? Beloved, let us comfort ourselves with this thought, that in our case, as in Simon's, it is not our cross, but Christ's cross which we carry. 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? 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!". 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." Christ did but transfer to Simon the outward frame, the mere tree; but the curse of the tree, which was our sin and its punishment, rested on Jesus' shoulders still. 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. 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. But ye ask me where is the spouse, the king's daughter fair and beautiful? We shall by the assistance of the Holy Spirit try to regard these words of our Saviour in a five-fold light. 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. The most careless eye discerns it. 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 world has in former days counted it God's service to kill the saints. Oh! I show unto you a more excellent way. John Chapter 19 - In-depth, verse-by-verse commentary and Bible study of John chapter 19 in plain English. Volume 19, Sermons 1089-1149 (1873) Hide. 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. So were the streets of Jerusalem; for great multitudes followed him. 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." There were, as you know, seven of those last words, and seven is the number of perfection and fulness; the number which blends the three of the infinite God with the four of complete creation. Christians, will you refuse to be cross-bearers for Christ? That is very possible; Christ may have carried the heavier end, against the transverse beam, and Simon may have borne the lighter end. 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. what a black thought crosses our mind! We gave him our tears and then grieved him with our sins. The Redeemer's cry of "I thirst" is a solemn lesson of patience to his afflicted. Well, beloved, the cross we have to carry is only for a little while at most. Trust in the Son of God and you shall never die. But my Prince is hated without a cause. Some of those whom we loved very dearly we have seen quite unable to help themselves; the death sweat has been upon them, and this has been one of the marks of their approaching dissolution, that they have been parched with thirst, and could only mutter between their half-closed lips, "Give me to drink." You do suffer. Coming fresh from the country, not knowing what was going on, he joined with the mob, and they made him carry the cross. 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. These are awful words, but they are not mine; they are the very words of God in Scripture. For his sake we may rejoice in self-denials, and accept Christ and a crust as all we desire between here and heaven. 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." 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. 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. crucify him!" After our Lord Jesus Christ had been formally condemned by Pilate, our text tells us he was led away. The last word but one, "It is finished." John 19:3. "I thirst," ay, this is my soul's word with her Lord. It seems to me very wonderful that this "I thirst" should be, as it were, the clearance of it all. 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! Therefore while he thirsts give him to drink this day. Though Simon had to bear the cross for a very little while, it gave him lasting honor. 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. "He that taketh not up his cross and followeth not after me," says Christ, "is not worthy of me." The lictors executed their cruel office upon his shoulders with their rods and scourges, until the stripes had reached the full number. I do not think we should seek after needless persecution. Take up your cross daily and follow him. This is man's treatment of his Saviour. John 19:1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. It is so with each one of you? 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. Hark how their loud voices demand that he should be hastened to execution! Some of these were persons of considerable rank; many of them had ministered to him of their substance; amidst the din and howling of the crowd, and the noise of the soldiery, they raised an exceeding loud and bitter cry, like Rachel weeping for her children, who would not be comforted, because they were not. 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. Know ye not, beloved, for I speak to those who know the Lord, that ye are crucified together with Christ? And what makes him love us so? 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. We ought not to forget the Jews. Conservative, but not too much depth. 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. Mark you, the ransom of men was all paid by Christ; that was redemption by price. 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. Perhaps they are your children, the objects of your fondest love, with no interest in Christ, without God and without hope in the world! 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. 1. Is not this a fertile field of thought? Next Saturday all eyes will be fixed on a great Prince who shall ride through our streets with his Royal Bride. Do not let us forget the infinite distance between the Lord of glory on his throne and the Crucified dried up with thirst. 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. "I thirst" is the fifth cry, and its utterance teaches us the truth of Scripture, for all things were accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, and therefore our Lord said, "I thirst." It is not fit that he should live." 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. There is the complete justification of the believer, since the work by which he is accepted is fully accomplished. It is the opinion of some commentators that Simon only carried one end of the cross, and not the whole of it. Revelation: The Lectio Continua Expository Commentary on the New Testament (Beeke) $30.00 $40.00. 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. 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." You are not, therefore, so poor as he. III. 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. To-day I invite your attention to another Prince, marching in another fashion through his metropolis. 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. 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. 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!" "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. 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. Oh! 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. We see in Simon's carrying the cross a picture of what the Church is to do throughout all generations. (John 19:11) Jesus answered, . Our glorious Samson had been fighting our foes; heaps upon heaps he had slain his thousands, and now like Samson he was sore athirst. Have you prayed for your fellow men? and they smote him with their hands. We ought all to have a longing for conversions. In the Lord of Hosts, who shows his power in the sufferings of Christ and of his Church. 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. John 19 Commentary John chapter 19 commentary Bible study. Christ must die a felon's death, and it must be upon the felon's gallows, in the place where horrid crimes had met their due reward. What a cataract of immortal souls dashes downwards to the pit every hour! 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." 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. Jesus said, "I thirst," and this is the complaint of a man. Bearing upon his back the sin of all his people, the offering goes without the camp. He derived spiritual refreshment from the winning of that women's heart to himself. "To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise." 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. 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. 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. For the thousands of eyes which shall gaze upon the youthful Prince, I offer the gaze of men and angels. What learn we here as we see Christ led forth? 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. 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? " And He bowed His head, and gave up His spirit. 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. Your noble Prince is preparing for his marriage: mine is hastening to his doom. Nay more; he is banished from their society, as if he were a leper whose breath would be infectious whose presence would scatter plague. Think of that! good God! The Church must suffer, that the gospel may be spread by her means. Inductive Bible study on John 19. May the Holy Spirit often lead us to glean therein. 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. Universal manhood, left to itself, rejects, crucifies, and mocks the Christ of God. So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. Here, as everywhere else, we are constrained to say of our Lord, "Never man spake like this man." He believed, as a Roman in gods many. Well might the Master say, "Weep not for me, but for yourselves." 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. 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. 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