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. 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 19:4-5. What learn we here as we see Christ led forth? 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. 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. "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" You have blessed company; your path is marked with footprints of your Lord. 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. 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. You see there the multitude are leading him forth from the temple. They take matters very gently; they think it unnecessary to be soldiers of the cross. 1 So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. Know ye not, beloved, for I speak to those who know the Lord, that ye are crucified together with Christ? Fix your hearts upon some unsaved one, and thirst until he is saved. (6) John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the sour wine, He said, " It is finished! For several Sabbath mornings my mind has been directed into subjects which I might fitly call the deep things of God. Mine is adorned with garments crimsoned with his own blood. IV. We can never forget the painful scenes of which we have been witness, when we have watched the dissolving of the human frame. May the Holy Ghost work in you the complete pattern of Christ crucified, and to him shall be praise for ever and ever. 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. His most fruitful years of ministry were at the New Park Street and later the Metropolitan Tabernacle pulpit in London. And said, Hail, King of the Jews! "'Twere you my sins, my cruel sins, His chief tormentors were; Each of my grimes became a nail, And unbelief the spear. Always was he in harmony with himself, and his own body was always expressive of his soul's cravings as well as of its own longings. As Spurgeon puts it "Faith is described as 'receiving' Jesus. My heart shall not be content till he is all in all to me, and I am altogether lost in him. Dear friend, if you think that you suffer all that a Christian can suffer; if all God's billows roll over you, yet, remember, there is not one drop of wrath in all your sea of sorrow. Come let us pour out full flagons, until his joy is fulfilled in us. good God! That thirst was caused, perhaps, in part by the loss of blood, and by the fever created by the irritation caused by his four grievous wounds. In the fourth place, one or two words upon CHRIST'S FELLOW-SUFFERERS. 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. 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. I am ashamed of some professed Christians, heartily ashamed of them! We ought not to forget the Jews. We shall perhaps know it in our measure in our dying hour, but not yet, nor ever so terribly as he did. This was intended at once to proclaim his guilt and intimate his doom. I do not know how far it was from Pilate's house to the Mount of Doom. Did he not tell his disciples, "I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished?" Beloved, there is now upon our Master, and there always has been, a thirst after the love of his people. 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." The arrow which has lately pierced thee, my brother, was first stained with his blood. 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. Our first parents plucked forbidden fruit, and by eating slew the race. The sinful find our conversation distasteful; in our pursuits the carnal have no interest; things dear to us are dross to worldlings, while things precious to them are contemptible to us. " And He bowed His head, and gave up His spirit. Christ does exempt you from sin, but not from sorrow; he does take the curse of the cross, but he does not take the cross of the curse away from you. 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. Home; Origin; Birth; John; Acts; About; JOHN 19 COMMENTARY . 'Tis his cross, and he goes before you as a shepherd goes before his sheep. For his sake we may rejoice in self-denials, and accept Christ and a crust as all we desire between here and heaven. 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. What, then, dear friends, should be the sorrows excited by a view of Christ's sufferings? 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. John Chapter 19 - In-depth, verse-by-verse commentary and Bible study of John chapter 19 in plain English. We used to melt when we heard about his sufferings, but we did not turn from our sins. What doth he say? 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. 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! One word: transformation. 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. 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. Shall carnal appetites be indulged and bodies pampered when Jesus cried :I thirst"? 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. Exposition of the Gospel according to John by Hendriksen, William, 1900-1982 (1953) 526 pages 19 ratings How has it been with you? Let there be nothing but your religion to object to, and then if that offends them let them be offended, it is a cross which you must carry joyfully. 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." I cannot think that natural thirst was all he felt. He is not allowed to worship with them. Shall the servant be above his Master, or the disciple above his Lord? wherein we see the Son of man in the gentleness of a son caring for his bereaved mother. We are to reckon upon all this, and should the worst befal us, it is to be no strange thing to us. 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. 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. What knocks he for? Largest collection of Spurgeon resources online, including a complete 63 volume set of sermons, audio sermons, books, and quotes. The high places of earth's worship and honor are not for us. Then they said, "Hail, King of the Jews!" And they struck Him with their hands. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. And well they may; the son of such noble parents deserves a nation's love. There can be no shadow of doubt but that our Lord was really crucified, and no one substituted for him. 29. The spear broke up the very fountains of life; no human body could survive such a wound. Christ was spit upon with shame; sinner, what shame will be yours! He must love his chosen whom he has once begun to love, for he is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do" here we see the Mediator interceding: Jesus standing before the Father pleading for the guilty. 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. We may well remember our faults this day. Let us now gaze for awhile upon CHRIST CARRYING HIS CROSS. 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. But my Prince is hated without a cause. 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." Complain not, then. I have now a third picture to present to you CHRIST AND HIS MOURNERS. 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. "He that taketh not up his cross and followeth not after me," says Christ, "is not worthy of me." 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. Let me show what I think he meant. What but for the juice of the vine that he might be refreshed? "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." "Wist ye not," said he, while yet a boy, "that I must be about my Father's business?" I cannot roll up into one word all the mass of sorrows which met upon the head of Christ who died for us, therefore it is impossible for me to tell you what streams, what oceans of grief must roll over your spirit if you die as you now are. 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." Henceforth, also, let us cultivate the spirit of resignation, for we may well rejoice to carry a cross which his shoulders have borne before us. I pray you, lend your ears to such faint words as I can utter on a subject all too high for me, the march of the world's Maker along the way of his great sorrow; your Redeemer traversing the rugged path of suffering, along which he went with heaving heart and heavy footsteps, that he might pave a royal road of mercy for his enemies. Even as the hart panteth after the water brooks, our souls would thirst after thee, O God. He would have sacrificed himself to save his countrymen, so heartily did he desire their eternal welfare. Nay more; he is banished from their society, as if he were a leper whose breath would be infectious whose presence would scatter plague. Today! They are created in the minds of men. Well, then, what means this cry, "I thirst," but this, that we should thirst too? A river of the water of life, pure as crystal, proceedeth to-day out of the throne of God and of the Lamb, and yet once he condescended to say, "I thirst," before his angelic guards, they would surely have emulated the courage of the men of David when they cut their way to the well of Bethlehem that was within the gate, and drew water in jeopardy of their lives. April 14th, 1878 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). 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." Though Simon had to bear the cross for a very little while, it gave him lasting honor. 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. 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. Simon was an African; he came from Cyrene. Oh! Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 19 John 19:1-16 John 19:1. The Geneva Series of Commentaries include historic commentaries on biblical books written by some of the great theologians in the history of the church. According to modern thought man is a very fine and noble creature, struggling to become better. It is not fit that he should live." A phantom, as some have called him, could not suffer in his fashion: but Jesus really suffered, not only the more refined pains of delicate and sensitive minds, but the rougher and commoner pangs of flesh and blood. It is done. 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. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. The voice of sympathy prevailed over the voice of scorn. I am not the One anointed of God to save mankind. John 1:21. It was a thirst such as none of us have ever known, for not yet has the death dew condensed upon our brows. 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. 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 . He believed, as a Roman in gods many. A refined and heavenly appetite, a craving for our Lord. Will ye raise a clamor of tumultuous shouting? Hark how their loud voices demand that he should be hastened to execution! Our Lord Jesus came forth, willing to be exposed to their scorn. "I thirst," ay, this is my soul's word with her Lord. See, it has been blackened with bruises, and stained with the shameful spittle of them that derided him. 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. Yet his language teaches us not to worship her, for he calls her "woman," but to honor him in whom his direst agony thought of her needs and griefs, as he also thinks of all his people, for these are his mother and sister and brother. He calls for that: will you not give 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 But how vast was the disparity! Oh, wondrous substitution of the just for the unjust, of God for man, of the perfect Christ for us guilty, hell-deserving rebels. You and I have nothing else to preach. Betrayal and arrest in the garden. It seems to me very wonderful that this "I thirst" should be, as it were, the clearance of it all. Read Joo 15:7 bible commentary from Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible by Charles Haddon Spurgeon FREE on BiblePortal.com Oh, shame that men should find so much applause for Princes and none for the King of kings. I tell you, sirs, that yonder malefactor carried his cross and died on it; and you will carry your sorrows, and be damned with them, except you repent. The last of his last words is also taken from the Scriptures, and shows where his mind was feeding. 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. I claim for the procession of my Lord an interest superior to the pageant you are now so anxiously expecting. 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. Behold, my King is not without his crown alas, a crown of thorns set with ruby drops of blood! Can you help feeling how very near Jesus is to us when his lips must be moistened with a sponge, and he must be so dependent upon others as to ask drink from their hand? Beware of rendering him homage and dishonouring his name at the same time. Angels cannot suffer thirst. Did we not do so years ago before we knew him? Now we see Jesus brought before the priests and rulers, who pronounce him guilty; God himself imputes our sins to him; he was made sin for us; and, as the substitute for our guilt, bearing our sin upon his shoulders for that cross was a sort of representation in wood of our guilt and doom we see the great Scape-goat led away by the appointed officers of justice. Certain philosophers have said that they love the pursuit of truth even better than the knowledge of truth. 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. I have sometimes met with persons who have suffered much; they have lost money, they have worked hard all their lives, or they have laid for years upon a bed of sickness, and they therefore suppose that because they have suffered so much in this life, they shall thus escape the punishment of sin hereafter. Oh I raise the question, and be not satisfied unless you can answer it most positively in the affirmative. Who among us would not willingly pour out his soul unto death if he might but give refreshment to the Lord? Then comes the "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Oh! 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. This is man's treatment of his Saviour. How harshly grate the cruel syllables, "Crucify him! John 19 Commentary John chapter 19 commentary Bible study. Today! Universal manhood, left to itself, rejects, crucifies, and mocks the Christ of God. We may therefore come before him, with all the rest of our race, when God subdues them to repentance by his love, and look on him whom we have pierced, and mourn for him as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. 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. 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. Let patience have her perfect work. 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. John 19:1-16 - Glory Mocked and Condemned John 19:17-30 - Glory Crucified John 19:31-42 - Glory Buried A. Jesus is condemned to crucifixion. 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. 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. why hast thou forsaken me?" "Women, behold thy son!" Beloved, let us thirst for the souls of our fellow-men. And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou ? 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. 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. O souls, burdened with sin, rest ye here, and resting live. 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. "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." John 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. A new edition of Spurgeon's classic devotional using the ESV. 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! And said, Hail, King of the Jews!_ John preached a sacrificial Saviour, a sin-bearing Saviour, a sin-atoning Saviour. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. Brother, thirst I pray you to have your workpeople saved. You have been ill, and you have been parched with fever as he was, and then you too have gasped out "I thirst." With "I thirst" the evil is destroyed and receives its expiation. Those pictures which represent our Lord as wearing the crown of thorns upon the tree have therefore at least some scriptural warrant. John 19:16 . Weep not for him, but for these. The Church must suffer, that the gospel may be spread by her means. "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." "And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes," vinegar, and not wine; sourness, and not sweetness. "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. 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. Dear fountain of delight unknown! Amen. It is the empty cup placed under the flowing stream; the penniless hand held out for heavenly alms." . There is one way by which you can tell whether he carried your sin or not. He pitied the sufferer, but he thought so little of him that he joined in the voice of scorn. I. John 1 19-51 Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 1:19-51 John 1:19. It was pain that dried his mouth and made it like an oven, till he declared, in the language of the twenty-second psalm, "My tongue cleaveth to my jaws." He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it. I do not think we should seek after needless persecution. Inductive Bible study on John 19. 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." "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. Jesus thirsted, then let us thirst in this dry and thirsty land where no water is. Although Simon carried Christ's cross, he did not volunteer to do it, but they compelled him. "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. 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." Is not this a fertile field of thought? Do not let the picture vanish till you have satisfied yourselves once for all that Christ was here the substitute for you. 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