I. In the former cry, as he opened Paradise, you saw the Son of God; now you see him who was verily and truly born of a women, made under the law; and under the law you see him still, for he honours his mother and cares for her in the last article of death. why hast thou forsaken me?" It is not likely that we shall be able to worship with their worship. He is exiled from their friendship, too. 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." Every word, therefore, you see teaches us some grand fundamental doctrine of our blessed faith. 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! Of the many benefits we have in learning from Paul, a few stand out:1. Hark how their loud voices demand that he should be hastened to execution! 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. Take up your cross, and go without the camp, following your Lord, even until death. We ought all to have a longing for conversions. Do not let the picture vanish till you have satisfied yourselves once for all that Christ was here the substitute for you. Next time your fevered lips murmur "I am very thirsty," you may say to yourself, "Those are sacred words, for my Lord spake in that fashion." He also knew well the terrible joy that comes only through suffering as he lived quite afflicted (both by illness and slander). 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. 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. "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.". He is thirsty still, you see, for our poor love, and surely we cannot deny it to him. Rutherford used words somewhat to this effect, "I thirst for my Lord and this is joy; a joy which no man taketh from me. Some of you will! John 19:16 . Therefore while he thirsts give him to drink this day. O my hearers, beware of praising Jesus and denying his atoning sacrifice. You have been ill, and you have been parched with fever as he was, and then you too have gasped out "I thirst." wherein we see the Son of man in the gentleness of a son caring for his bereaved mother. 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. John 19:7-8. How has it been with you? Will your Prince be decorated with honors? Nor dost thou set a time for waiting, but instantly thou dost set wide the gate of pearl; thou hast all power in heaven as well as upon earth. The Geneva Series of Commentaries include historic commentaries on biblical books written by some of the great theologians in the history of the church. Do we not see here the truth of that which was set forth in shadow by the scape-goat? That is very possible; Christ may have carried the heavier end, against the transverse beam, and Simon may have borne the lighter end. I am glad the world expects much from us, and watches us narrowly. Mine is adorned with garments crimsoned with his own blood. Rutherford says, "Whenever Christ gives us a cross, he cries, 'Halves, my love.'" Well might the Master say, "Weep not for me, but for yourselves." 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! Lloyd-Jones opens John 19:31-37 to answer that very question. There is the complete justification of the believer, since the work by which he is accepted is fully accomplished. As these seven sayings were so faithfully recorded, we do not wonder that they have frequently been the subject of devout meditation. 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." But what shall be your cry when you shall say, "Good God! Hast thou laid thy hand upon his head, confessed thy sin, and trusted in him? I show unto you a more excellent way. It is the opinion of some commentators that Simon only carried one end of the cross, and not the whole of it. The most careless eye discerns it. You have seen Jesus led away by his enemies; so shall you be dragged away by fiends to the place appointed for you. 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. 1089 - The Man Greatly Beloved . Trust in the Son of God and you shall never die. 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 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. 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. According to modern thought man is a very fine and noble creature, struggling to become better. 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. "I thirst, but not as once I did, The vain delights of earth to share; Thy wounds, Emmanuel, all forbid That I should seek my pleasures there. Certain philosophers have said that they love the pursuit of truth even better than the knowledge of truth. So were the streets of Jerusalem; for great multitudes followed him. Have we not often given him vinegar to drink? 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. Let all your love be his. He must love, it is his nature. It was the common place of death. Our glorious Samson had been fighting our foes; heaps upon heaps he had slain his thousands, and now like Samson he was sore athirst. Fix your hearts upon some unsaved one, and thirst until he is saved. We shall perhaps know it in our measure in our dying hour, but not yet, nor ever so terribly as he did. With "I thirst" the evil is destroyed and receives its expiation. Beloved, if our Master said, "I thirst," do we expect every day to drink of streams from Lebanon? There have been times, and the days may come again, when faithfulness to Christ has entailed exclusion from what is called "society." It was a thirst such as none of us have ever known, for not yet has the death dew condensed upon our brows. John 1 19-51 Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 1:19-51 John 1:19. Then they said, "Hail, King of the Jews!" And they struck Him with their hands. The Via Dolorosa, as the Romanists call it, is a long street at the present time, but it may have been but a few yards. It does not often happen that five or six thousand people meet together twice; it never does, I suppose; the scythe of death must cut some of you down before my voice shall warn you again! Those pictures which represent our Lord as wearing the crown of thorns upon the tree have therefore at least some scriptural warrant. This thirst had been on him from the earliest of his earthly days. 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. 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. While thus we admire his condescension let our thoughts also turn with delight to his sure sympathy: for if Jesus said, "I thirst," then he knows all our frailties and woes. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. April 14th, 1878 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). Cover it with a cloak? We do not know what may have been the color of alimony face, but it was most likely black. While other religions create what appear to be worship-filled gatherings, they are empty and void of fact. Hail, everlasting King in heaven, thou dost admit to thy paradise whomsoever thou wilt! Even as the hart panteth after the water brooks, our souls would thirst after thee, O God. The world has in former days counted it God's service to kill the saints. A Christian living to indulge the base appetites of a brute beast, to eat and to drink almost to gluttony and drunkenness, is utterly unworthy of the name. Whether a disciple then or not, we have every reason to believe that he became so afterwards; he was the father, we read, of Alexander and Rufus, two persons who appear to have been well known in the early Church; let us hope that salvation came to his house when he was compelled to bear the Savior's cross. "He that taketh not up his cross and followeth not after me," says Christ, "is not worthy of me." 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 My Lord is not altogether without his espoused one. How they led him forth we do not know. 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. How near akin the thirsty Saviour is to us; let us love him more and more. I will give you one of his thirsty prayers "Father, I will that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory." 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." 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. So he was thirsting then. Calvary was like our Old Bailey; it was the usual place of execution for the district. Our Lord in his death-cries, as in all else, was perfection itself. Coming fresh from the country, not knowing what was going on, he joined with the mob, and they made him carry the cross. The ceremonial of the Jewish religion denies him any participation in its pomps; the priests condemn him never again to tread the hallowed floors, never again to look upon the consecrated altars in the place of his people's worship. May the Holy Ghost work in you the complete pattern of Christ crucified, and to him shall be praise for ever and ever. 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." 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! "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. Betrayal and arrest in the garden. Next Saturday all eyes will be fixed on a great Prince who shall ride through our streets with his Royal Bride. III. As you look at the cross upon his shoulders does it represent your sin? This is what the Apostle meant when he said, "I fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the Church." That man is a fool and deserves no pity, who purposely excites the disgust of other people. Today! No sufferings of ours have anything to do with the atonement of sin. You have, then, no true sympathy for Christ if you have not an earnest sympathy with those who would win souls for Christ. 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. It is not fit that he should live." I have touched that point very lightly because I want a little more time to dwell upon a fourth view of this scene. 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. We used to melt when we heard about his sufferings, but we did not turn from our sins. Jesus, being a man, escaped none of the ills which are allotted to man in death. We know from experience that the present effect of sin in every man who indulges in it is thirst of soul. They are these Weep not because the Savior bled, but because your sins made him bleed. John 19 Commentary John chapter 19 commentary Bible study. I am not the One anointed of God to save mankind. John 1:21. 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." The woes which broke the Savior's heart must crush theirs. Borrowed from his lips it well suiteth my mouth. Either Christ must die for me, or else I must die for myself the second death; if he did not carry the curse for me, then on me must it rest for ever and ever. Commentators like Thomas Manton and John Calvin are represented in this series. Such a greeting had the Lord of glory, but alas, it was not the shout of welcome, but the yell of "Away with him! There was nothing behind in the price, but there is something behind in the manifested power, and we must continue to fill up that measure of revealed power, carrying each one of us the cross with Christ, till the last shame shall have been poured upon his cause, and he shall reign for ever and ever. If he was so poor that his garments were stripped from him, and he was hung up upon the tree, penniless and friendless, hungering and thirsting, will you henceforth groan and murmur because you bear the yoke of poverty and want? Cheerfully accept this burden, ye servants of the Lord. 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." Jesus took the wrath; Jesus carried the sin; and now all that you endure is but for his sake, that you may be conformed unto his image, and may aid in gathering his people into his family. The Holy Spirit took special care that each of the sacred utterances should be fittingly recorded. Angels cannot suffer thirst. First, they teach and confirm many of the doctrines of our holy faith. All nations gathered about my Lord, both great and mean men clustered around his person. These are silken days, and religion fights not so stern a battle. 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. How harshly grate the cruel syllables, "Crucify him! But ye ask me where is the spouse, the king's daughter fair and beautiful? 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." The Christian faith and motives for Christian worship are based on the certainty of facts. 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. Alas, man is the slave and the dupe of Satan, and a black-hearted traitor to his God. Beloved, there is now upon our Master, and there always has been, a thirst after the love of his people. 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." After our Lord Jesus Christ had been formally condemned by Pilate, our text tells us he was led away. 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. 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. O souls, burdened with sin, rest ye here, and resting live. There can be no shadow of doubt but that our Lord was really crucified, and no one substituted for him. John 1:19 world has in former days counted it God 's service to kill saints. Gentleness of a Son caring for his bereaved mother was a thirst such none! 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