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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." 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. Hunger and thirst after righteousness, for you shall be filled. Though Simon had to bear the cross for a very little while, it gave him lasting honor. Here is the forgiveness of sin free forgiveness in answer to the Saviour's plea. It seems to me very wonderful that this "I thirst" should be, as it were, the clearance of it all. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. Includes cross references, questions, verse by verse commentary, outline, and applications on John chapter 19 for small groups. 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. V. Lastly, the cry of "I thirst" is to us THE PATTERN OF OUR DEATH WITH HIM. One word: transformation. "Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, and touch not the unclean thing." John 19:16 . Brother, thirst I pray you to have your workpeople saved. For the thousands of eyes which shall gaze upon the youthful Prince, I offer the gaze of men and angels. No longer sink below the brim; But overflow, and pour me down A living and life-giving stream.". 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. We all know that a different dress will often raise a doubt about the identity of an individual; but lo! Last Sunday the remark was made to me "If the story of the sufferings of Christ had been told of any other man, all the congregation would have been in tears." Did I not describe last Sabbath the knotted scourges which fell upon the Saviours back? He also knew well the terrible joy that comes only through suffering as he lived quite afflicted (both by illness and slander). Let me show what I think he meant. 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. 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. 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. Commentators like Thomas Manton and John Calvin are represented in this series. 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. 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. Shall carnal appetites be indulged and bodies pampered when Jesus cried :I thirst"? 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 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." What, then, dear friends, should be the sorrows excited by a view of Christ's sufferings? Acts 19 Acts 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. There are many other ways in which these words might be read, and they would be found to be all full of instruction. " And having said this, He breathed His last. We shall by the assistance of the Holy Spirit try to regard these words of our Saviour in a five-fold light. Jesus was deserted of God; and if he, who was only imputedly a sinner, was deserted, how much more shall you be? And what makes him love us so? 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." By contrast, the Christian faith is built on the . 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 can never forget the painful scenes of which we have been witness, when we have watched the dissolving of the human frame. John 19:28 . You and I have nothing else to preach. The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. 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. They force him without the walls, and are not satisfied till they have rid themselves of his obnoxious presence. Even as the hart panteth after the water brooks, our souls would thirst after thee, O God. Our religion is our glory; the Cross of Christ is our honor, and, while not ostentatiously parading it, as the Pharisees do, we ought never to be so cowardly as to conceal it. He saith, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock." 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. Let the sympathy of Christ, then, be fully believed in and deeply appreciated, since he said, "I thirst." 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. "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do" is the first. My Lord is not altogether without his espoused one. John and Herod 1549 - Good News for Thirsty Souls 1550 - The Unspeakable Gift 1551 - Today! Betrayal and arrest in the garden. Did he not tell his disciples, "I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished?" 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." 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." 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. The last expiring word in which he commended his spirit to his Father, is the note of acceptance for himself and for us all. are they not more like sharp vinegar? 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. As not a bone of him shall be broken, so not a word shall be lost. The next time we are in pain or are suffering depression of spirit we will remember that our Lord understands it all, for he has had practical, personal experience of it. 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. He died in less time than persons crucified commonly did. O to be enlarged in soul so as to take deeper draughts of his sweet love, for our heart cannot have enough. I have heard sermons, and studied works by Romish writers upon the passion and agony, which have moved me to copious tears, but I am not clear that all the emotion was profitable. The whole universe shall hiss you; angels shall be ashamed of you; your own friends, yes, your sainted mother, shall say "Amen" to your condemnation; and those who loved you best shall sit as assessors with Christ to judge you and condemn you! 29. Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 19 John 19:1-16 John 19:1. 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." Think of that! I invite your attention to CHRIST AS LED FORTH. 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. Commentary on John 19:31-37 (Read John 19:31-37) A trial was made whether Jesus was dead. The mind of man is like the daughters of the horseleech, which cry for ever, "Give, give." 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!" He believed, as a Roman in gods many. He loved the Gentile, but still Jerusalem was the city of the Great King. This was the act too of man at his best, when he is moved to pity; for it seems clear that he who lifted up the wet sponge to the Redeemer's lips, did it in compassion. And well they may; the son of such noble parents deserves a nation's 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. John 18:19-40 - Glory on Trial A. Weep not for him, but for these. And they asked him, What then? It was a confirmation of the Scripture testimony with regard to man's natural enmity to God. No man dare call him friend now, or whisper a word of comfort to him. Beloved, let us thirst for the souls of our fellow-men. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it. 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. John 19 Commentary John chapter 19 commentary Bible study. He must love, it is his nature. The most careless eye discerns it. As these seven sayings were so faithfully recorded, we do not wonder that they have frequently been the subject of devout meditation. So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. 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. Then came, "Women, behold thy son!" Do you not remember how that thirst of his was strong in the old days of the prophet? 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. All nations gathered about my Lord, both great and mean men clustered around his person. They would be very proper, very proper; God forbid that we should stay them, except with the gentle words of Christ, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me." Have we not often given him vinegar to drink? Say not that the comparison is strained, for in a moment I will withdraw it and present the contrast. Yet, dear friends, to some eyes there will be more attraction in the procession of sorrow, of shame, and of blood, than in you display of grandeur and joy. We know from experience that the present effect of sin in every man who indulges in it is thirst of soul. What a cataract of immortal souls dashes downwards to the pit every hour! The sufferings of Christ should make us weep over those who have brought that blood upon their heads. Beeke, Joel R. & Thompson, Nick. 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." These solemn sentences have shone like the seven golden candlesticks or the seven stars of the Apocalypse, and have lighted multitudes of men to him who spake them. I cannot think that natural thirst was all he felt. 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. See how man at his best mingles admiration of the Saviour's person with scorn of his claims; writing books to hold him up as an example and at the same moment rejecting his deity; admitting that he was a wonderful man, but denying his most sacred mission; extolling his ethical teaching and then trampling on his blood: thus giving him drink, but that drink vinegar. The high places of earth's worship and honor are not for us. John 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. 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. 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. 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. Oh, wondrous substitution of the just for the unjust, of God for man, of the perfect Christ for us guilty, hell-deserving rebels. 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. 1. I think that Roman soldier meant well, at least well for a rough warrior with his little light and knowledge. Christians, will you refuse to be cross-bearers for Christ? The utterance of "I thirst" brought out A TYPE OF MAN'S TREATMENT OF HIS LORD. Amen. There are no passages in all the public ministry of Jesus so tender as those which have regard to Jerusalem. Are you lukewarm? 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. 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! 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. Ray Stedman 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? 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. The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel, they cannot spare him the agonies of dying on the cross, they will therefore remit the labor of carrying it. Christ was spit upon with shame; sinner, what shame will be yours! 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. Oh! "Women, behold thy son!" Inductive Bible study on John 19. Scripture provides a wealth . Shall the servant be above his Master, or the disciple above his Lord? 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. Then they said, "Hail, King of the Jews!" And they struck Him with their hands. They are these Weep not because the Savior bled, but because your sins made him bleed. Believing this, let us tenderly feel how very near akin to us our Lord Jesus has become. 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. You young believers, who have lately followed Christ, should father and mother forsake you, remember you were bidden to reckon upon it; should brothers and sisters deride, you must put this down as part of the cost of being a Christian. Come, bring him your warm heart, and let him drink from that purified chalice as much as he wills. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. John 19:7-8. He pitied the sufferer, but he thought so little of him that he joined in the voice of scorn. "To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise." He thirsted to pluck us from between the jaws of hell, to pay our redemption price, and set us free from the eternal condemnation which hung over us; and when on the cross the work was almost done his thirst was not assuaged, and could not be till he could say, "It is finished." Justice must fly the field lest it be severe to so deserving a being; as for punishment, it must not be whispered to his ears polite. You must consider Jesus, and not yourself; turn your eye to Christ, the great substitute for sinners, but never dream of trusting in yourselves. 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. sinner, if God hides his face from Christ, how much less will he spare you! There were two other cross-bearers in the throng; they were malefactors; their crosses were just as heavy as the Lord's, and yet, at least, one of them had no sympathy with him, and his bearing the cross only led to his death, and not to his salvation. The woes which broke the Savior's heart must crush theirs. 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. We care, however, far more for the fact that he went forth carrying his cross upon his shoulders. Certain philosophers have said that they love the pursuit of truth even better than the knowledge of truth. How truly man he is; he is, indeed, "bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh," for he bears our infirmities. Some of us, indeed, confess that, if we had read this narrative of suffering in a romance, we should have wept copiously, but the story of Christ's sufferings does not cause the excitement and emotion one would expect. When they had mocked him they pulled off the purple garment he had worn, this rough operation would cause much pain. 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. It is a blow at the fable of purgatory which strikes it to the heart. Mark then, Christian, Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" Coming fresh from the country, not knowing what was going on, he joined with the mob, and they made him carry the cross. Beloved, if our Master said, "I thirst," do we expect every day to drink of streams from Lebanon? The great agony of being forsaken by God was over, and he felt faint when the strain was withdrawn. I. After our Lord Jesus Christ had been formally condemned by Pilate, our text tells us he was led away. Glorious stoop of our exalted Head! 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 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 good God! John preached a sacrificial Saviour, a sin-bearing Saviour, a sin-atoning Saviour. Sister, thirst for the salvation of your class, thirst for the redemption of your family, thirst for the conversion of your husband. Metaphorically understood, thirst is dissatisfaction, the craving of the mind for something which it has not, but which it pines for. How great the love which led him to such a condescension as this! Oh! 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. One would wish to be as a spouse, who, when she had already been feasting in the banqueting-house, and had found his fruit sweet to her taste, so that she was overjoyed, yet cried out, "Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love." We ought all to have a longing for conversions. The cup of which thou art made to drink, though it be very bitter, bears the mark of his lips about its brim. 1 So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. Hast thou laid thy hand upon his head, confessed thy sin, and trusted in him? He derived spiritual refreshment from the winning of that women's heart to himself. "Weep for yourselves," says Christ, "rather than for me." The arrow which has lately pierced thee, my brother, was first stained with his blood. The Church, the bride of Christ, was there conformed to the image of her Lord; she was there, I say, in Simon, bearing the cross, and in the women weeping and lamenting. Thirst is no royal grief, but an evil of universal manhood; Jesus is brother to the poorest and most humble of our race. He did not spare his Son the stripes. They take matters very gently; they think it unnecessary to be soldiers of the cross. Cross, not that you may endure it the heart and he felt sweet love, for our can... 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