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O to be enlarged in soul so as to take deeper draughts of his sweet love, for our heart cannot have enough. We do not know what may have been the color of alimony face, but it was most likely black. I have now a third picture to present to you CHRIST AND HIS MOURNERS. The sufferings of Christ should make us weep over those who have brought that blood upon their heads. (1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. 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. 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." 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. Simon had to carry the cross but for a very little time, yet his name is in this Book for ever, and we may envy him his honor. 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. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. You and I have nothing else to preach. You must consider Jesus, and not yourself; turn your eye to Christ, the great substitute for sinners, but never dream of trusting in yourselves. The soldiery mocked and insulted him in every way that cruelty and scorn could devise. 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." He must love his chosen whom he has once begun to love, for he is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. He ran and filled a sponge with vinegar: it was the best way he knew of putting a few drops of moisture to the lips of one who was suffering so much; but though he felt a degree of pity, it was such as one might show to a dog; he felt no reverence, but mocked as he relieved. Here, as everywhere else, we are constrained to say of our Lord, "Never man spake like this man." 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. How truly man he is; he is, indeed, "bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh," for he bears our infirmities. Do you not remember how that thirst of his was strong in the old days of the prophet? " And having said this, He breathed His last. II. Although Simon carried Christ's cross, he did not volunteer to do it, but they compelled him. It was one of Death's castles; here he stored his gloomiest trophies; he was the grim lord of that stronghold. The Geneva Series of Commentaries include historic commentaries on biblical books written by some of the great theologians in the history of the church. Commentators like Thomas Manton and John Calvin are represented in this series. O thou blessed Master, if we are indeed nailed up to the tree with thee, give us a thirst after thee with a thirst which only the cup of "the new covenant in thy blood" can ever satisfy. He loved the Gentile, but still Jerusalem was the city of the Great King. Mine is adorned with garments crimsoned with his own blood. Others think that Simon carried the whole of the cross. "Weep for yourselves," says Christ, "rather than for me." In the Lord of Hosts, who shows his power in the sufferings of Christ and of his Church. The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. Certain philosophers have said that they love the pursuit of truth even better than the knowledge of truth. Weep not for him, but for these. 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?". 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. 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. As for yourselves, thirst after perfection. The cup of which thou art made to drink, though it be very bitter, bears the mark of his lips about its brim. God forbid! 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." Ray Stedman But how vast was the disparity! Come to him in prayer, come to him in fellowship, come to him by perfect consecration, come to him by surrendering your whole being to the sweet mysterious influences of his Spirit. 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. Therefore while he thirsts give him to drink this day. Did not the prophecies say that man would give to his incarnate God gall to eat and vinegar to drink? Even as the hart panteth after the water brooks, our souls would thirst after thee, O God. Let us magnify and bless our Redeemer's name. 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. 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. 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." Ah, that I cannot tell, except his own great love. (John 19:11) Jesus answered, . "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." We read, "The soldiers also mocked him, offering him vinegar." 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. While other religions create what appear to be worship-filled gatherings, they are empty and void of fact. 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. These are awful words, but they are not mine; they are the very words of God in Scripture. 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. 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." There are many other ways in which these words might be read, and they would be found to be all full of instruction. 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. Every word, therefore, you see teaches us some grand fundamental doctrine of our blessed faith. He believed, as a Roman in gods many. 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. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh." "I thirst" meant that his heart was thirsting to save men. In your chamber let the gasp of your Lord as he said, "I thirst," go through your ears, and as you hear it let it touch your heart and cause you to gird up yourself and say, "Doth he say, 'I thirst'? IV. We see in Simon's carrying the cross a picture of what the Church is to do throughout all generations. I think, beloved friends, that the cry of "I thirst" was THE MYSTICAL EXPRESSION OF THE DESIRE OF HIS HEART "I thirst." Those pictures which represent our Lord as wearing the crown of thorns upon the tree have therefore at least some scriptural warrant. Well, then, what means this cry, "I thirst," but this, that we should thirst too? "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" This is man's treatment of his Saviour. 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." Calvary was like our Old Bailey; it was the usual place of execution for the district. He knew once how to turn water into wine, and in matchless love he has often turned our sour drink-offerings into something sweet to himself, though in themselves, methinks, they have been the juice of sour grapes, sharp enough to set his teeth on edge. As Christ went through the streets, a great multitude looked on. Let patience have her perfect work. Our sinful tongues, blistered by the fever of passion, must have burned for ever had not his tongue been tormented with thirst in our stead. This 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. 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. 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." V. Lastly, the cry of "I thirst" is to us THE PATTERN OF OUR DEATH WITH HIM. We all know that a different dress will often raise a doubt about the identity of an individual; but lo! They put his own clothes upon him, because they were the perquisites of the executioner, as modern hangmen take the garments of those whom they execute, so did the four soldiers claim a right to his raiment. We can never forget the painful scenes of which we have been witness, when we have watched the dissolving of the human frame. He said, "I thirst," in order that one might bring him drink, even as you have wished to have a cooling draught handed to you when you could not help yourself. As not a bone of him shall be broken, so not a word shall be lost. Thoughtful men have drawn a wealth of meaning from them, and in so doing have arranged them into different groups, and placed them under several heads. 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. Sister, thirst for the salvation of your class, thirst for the redemption of your family, thirst for the conversion of your husband. _Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. Let each of us say "Tis all my business here below To cry, Behold the Lamb!" John 1:30-31. This thirst had been on him from the earliest of his earthly days. 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. 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. 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. Some of them have no objection to worship with a poor congregation till they grow rich, and then, forsooth, they must go with the world's church, to mingle with fashion and gentility. In the fourth place, one or two words upon CHRIST'S FELLOW-SUFFERERS. According to the sacred canticle of love, in the fifth chapter of the Song of Songs, we learn that when he drank in those olden times it was in the garden of his church that he was refreshed. According to modern thought man is a very fine and noble creature, struggling to become better. Dear fountain of delight unknown! Beloved, can you say he carried your sin? They force him without the walls, and are not satisfied till they have rid themselves of his obnoxious presence. The platted crown of thorns, the purple robe, the reed with which they smote him, and the spittle with which they disfigured him, all these marked the contempt in which they held the King of the Jews. 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." 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. Your noble Prince is preparing for his marriage: mine is hastening to his doom. I cannot give you more than a mere taste of this rich subject, but I have been most struck with two ways of regarding our Lord's last words. Then I will thirst with him and not complain, I will suffer with him and not murmur." A strong emphasis in Spurgeon's preaching was God's grace and sovereignty over man's helpless state. John and Herod 1549 - Good News for Thirsty Souls 1550 - The Unspeakable Gift 1551 - Today! 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. 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. He is indeed "Immanuel, God with us" everywhere. 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." And they asked him, What then? Oh! 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." How has it been with you? There is bread upon your table to-day, and there will be at least a cup of cold water to refresh you. They are these Weep not because the Savior bled, but because your sins made him bleed. why hast thou forsaken me?" 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. 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. 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. 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. "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. Will ye raise a clamor of tumultuous shouting? Do not let the picture vanish till you have satisfied yourselves once for all that Christ was here the substitute for you. Shall it ever be a hardship to be denied the satisfying draught when he said, "I thirst." Think of the millions in this dark world! Next Saturday all eyes will be fixed on a great Prince who shall ride through our streets with his Royal Bride. Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was born in Essex, England. March 1st, 1863 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). The Church must suffer, that the gospel may be spread by her means. Today! We used to melt when we heard about his sufferings, but we did not turn from our sins. 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. 2 And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, . crucify him!" Appetite was the door of sin, and therefore in that point our Lord was put to pain. "I reckon that these light afflictions, which are but for a moment, are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us." It was most fitting that every word of our Lord upon the cross should be gathered up and preserved. Exposition of the Gospel according to John by Hendriksen, William, 1900-1982 (1953) 526 pages 19 ratings "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. 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. Let us muse upon the fact that Jesus was conducted without the gates of the city. 29. Here you see how the mortal flesh had to share in the agony of the inward spirit. wherein we see the Son of man in the gentleness of a son caring for his bereaved mother. The "I thirst" was the bearing of the last pang; what if I say it was the expression of the fact that his pangs had at last begun to cease, and their fury had spent itself, and left him able to note his lessor pains? 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. Thirst is no royal grief, but an evil of universal manhood; Jesus is brother to the poorest and most humble of our race. 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." No man dare call him friend now, or whisper a word of comfort to him. Jesus, being a man, escaped none of the ills which are allotted to man in death. Even now to a large extent the true Christian is like a Pariah, lower than the lowest caste, in the judgment of some. 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. O Lord Jesus, we love thee and we worship thee! To-day I invite your attention to another Prince, marching in another fashion through his metropolis. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. John 19:16 . I show unto you a more excellent way. Glorious stoop of our exalted Head! 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. 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. Cheerfully accept this burden, ye servants of the Lord. 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. Take up your cross, and go without the camp, following your Lord, even until death. He did not spare his Son the stripes. John 19:16 . 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. Home; Origin; Birth; John; Acts; About; JOHN 19 COMMENTARY . Let us now gaze for awhile upon CHRIST CARRYING HIS CROSS. What doth he say? "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani," what an awful shriek! Certainly it is so with you; you do but carry the light end of the cross; Christ bore the heavier end. It was a thirst such as none of us have ever known, for not yet has the death dew condensed upon our brows. The most careless eye discerns it. April 14th, 1878 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). See, brethren, here is a picture of what we may expect from men if we are faithful to our Master. In that cry there is reconciliation to God. Mark you, the ransom of men was all paid by Christ; that was redemption by price. There is the complete justification of the believer, since the work by which he is accepted is fully accomplished. "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. A refined and heavenly appetite, a craving for our Lord. 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. It seems to me very wonderful that this "I thirst" should be, as it were, the clearance of it all. The woes which broke the Savior's heart must crush theirs. Do not let us forget the infinite distance between the Lord of glory on his throne and the Crucified dried up with thirst. 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. (7) Luke 23:46 And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, "Father, INTO THY HANDS I COMMIT MY SPIRIT. Jesus thirsted, then let us thirst in this dry and thirsty land where no water is. 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. Did we not do so years ago before we knew him? 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 have touched that point very lightly because I want a little more time to dwell upon a fourth view of this scene. 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