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. 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." 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 soldiery mocked and insulted him in every way that cruelty and scorn could devise. After our Lord Jesus Christ had been formally condemned by Pilate, our text tells us he was led away. 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." Read Joo 15:7 bible commentary from Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible by Charles Haddon Spurgeon FREE on BiblePortal.com Your Prince is surrounded by a multitude of friends; hark how they joyously welcome him! They prefer a ceremonial pompous and gaudy; the swell of music, the glitter of costly garments, the parade of learning all these must minister grandeur to the world's religion, and thus shut out the simple followers of the Lamb. These are awful words, but they are not mine; they are the very words of God in Scripture. 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? 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'? 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. That man is a fool and deserves no pity, who purposely excites the disgust of other people. I know he loves to receive from you, because he delights even in a cup of cold water that you give to one of his disciples; how much more will he delight in the giving of your whole self to him? Alas, man is the slave and the dupe of Satan, and a black-hearted traitor to his God. You and I have nothing else to preach. 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. Next Saturday all eyes will be fixed on a great Prince who shall ride through our streets with his Royal Bride. 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. "I thirst," is his human body tormented by grievous pain. 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. Ah, that I cannot tell, except his own great love. I wonder he has ever received them, as one marvels why he received this vinegar; and yet he has received them, and smiled upon us for presenting them. 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. Oh I raise the question, and be not satisfied unless you can answer it most positively in the affirmative. He was innocent, and yet he thirsted; shall we marvel if guilty ones are now and then chastened? So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. 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. 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." After preaching his first sermon at the age of 16, he became pastor of the church in Waterbeach at the age of 17. 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. It began with the mouth of appetite, when it was sinfully gratified, and it ends when a kindred appetite is graciously denied. In the fourth place, one or two words upon CHRIST'S FELLOW-SUFFERERS. 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." John Chapter 19 - In-depth, verse-by-verse commentary and Bible study of John chapter 19 in plain English. 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. 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. 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. Simon was an African; he came from Cyrene. Beloved, let us thirst for the souls of our fellow-men. 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. Appetite was the door of sin, and therefore in that point our Lord was put to pain. 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. Will your thoroughfares be thronged? 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 Cheerfully accept this burden, ye servants of the Lord. There can be no shadow of doubt but that our Lord was really crucified, and no one substituted for him. crucify him!" 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. John and Herod 1549 - Good News for Thirsty Souls 1550 - The Unspeakable Gift 1551 - Today! Beloved, there is now upon our Master, and there always has been, a thirst after the love of his people. 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. Commentators like Thomas Manton and John Calvin are represented in this series. 1. He poureth out the streams that run among the hills, the torrents which rush adown the mountains, and the flowing rivers which enrich the plains. If we weep for the sufferings of Christ in the same way as we lament the sufferings of another man, our emotions will be only natural, and may work no 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. 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! Neither in torture of body nor in sadness of heart are we deserted by our Lord; his line is parallel with ours. 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." The last of his last words is also taken from the Scriptures, and shows where his mind was feeding. Jesus paused, and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me; but weep for yourselves and for your children." As Christ went through the streets, a great multitude looked on. Lectures to My Students - Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1889 Lessons from the Apostle Paul's Prayers - Charles Spurgeon 2018-02-19 Why study and pray the prayers of the Apostle Paul? He calls for that: will you not give it to him? IV. May we not despise our loaded table while he is neglected? 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. 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." "The sea is his, and he made it," and all fountains and springs are of his digging. I cannot think that natural thirst was all he felt. 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. John 1 19-51 Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 1:19-51 John 1:19. We care, however, far more for the fact that he went forth carrying his cross upon his shoulders. I do not think we should seek after needless persecution. It is not sorrow over Rome, but Jerusalem. Scripture provides a wealth . We all know that a different dress will often raise a doubt about the identity of an individual; but lo! 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." Well, then, what means this cry, "I thirst," but this, that we should thirst too? 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. See, brethren, where sin begins, and mark that there it ends. If not, may that picture of Christ fainting in the streets lead you to do so this morning. "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." O to be enlarged in soul so as to take deeper draughts of his sweet love, for our heart cannot have enough. "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." 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 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. Oh! With "I thirst" the evil is destroyed and receives its expiation. 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. Charles Haddon Spurgeon December 1, 1861 Scripture: John 19:30 From: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 7 It is Finished! It is not fit that he should live." Have you prayed for your fellow men? 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. Now Christ standing in the stead of the ungodly suffers thirst as a type of his enduring the result of sin. Here, as everywhere else, we are constrained to say of our Lord, "Never man spake like this man." They take matters very gently; they think it unnecessary to be soldiers of the cross. Amen. So numerous has the family of man now become, that there is a death every second; and when we know how very smell a proportion of the human race have even nominally received the cross and there is none other name given under heaven among men whereby we must be saved oh! That is very possible; Christ may have carried the heavier end, against the transverse beam, and Simon may have borne the lighter end. Beloved, can you say he carried your sin? " And He bowed His head, and gave up His spirit. 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. It is not likely that we shall be able to worship with their worship. O Lord Jesus, we love thee and we worship thee! ( John 19:1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. He pitied the sufferer, but he thought so little of him that he joined in the voice of scorn. There is one way by which you can tell whether he carried your sin or not. 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. Nor is this all. 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. 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. He loved the Gentile, but still Jerusalem was the city of the Great King. 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. 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. Fix your hearts upon some unsaved one, and thirst until he is saved. What was he looking for from his vineyard and its winepress? 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. "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. This is man's treatment of his Saviour. You have been ill, and you have been parched with fever as he was, and then you too have gasped out "I thirst." Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. May God deliver you! Conservative, but not too much depth. We shall by the assistance of the Holy Spirit try to regard these words of our Saviour in a five-fold light. There are many other ways in which these words might be read, and they would be found to be all full of instruction. Have we not often given him vinegar to drink? Romanists pretend to know; in fact they know the very spot where Veronica wiped the blessed face with her handkerchief, and found his likeness impressed upon it; we also know very well where that was not done; in fact they know the very spot where Jesus fainted, and if you go to Jerusalem you can see all these different places if you only carry enough credulity with you; but the fact is the city has been so razed, and burned, and ploughed, that there is little chance of distinguishing any of these positions, with the exception, it may be, of Mount Calvary, which being outside the walls may possibly still remain. If you will look, there is the mark of his blood-red shoulder upon that heavy cross. Oh! 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 . Inductive Bible study on John 19. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. He derived spiritual refreshment from the winning of that women's heart to himself. John 1 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries; John 1:12 Multiple Older Commentaries on this verse; . John 19:4-5. Conceal your religion? 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. For him they have no tolerance. Hail, everlasting King in heaven, thou dost admit to thy paradise whomsoever thou wilt! Brother, thirst to have your children save. Thirst is no royal grief, but an evil of universal manhood; Jesus is brother to the poorest and most humble of our race. 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. And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and they put on Him a purple robe. 'Tis his cross, and he goes before you as a shepherd goes before his sheep. Remember, dear friends, that what Christ suffered for us, these unregenerate ones must suffer for themselves, except they put their trust in Christ. Acts 19 Acts 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. Do not forget, also, that you bear this cross in partnership. "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.". 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. 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. "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. Thirst is a common-place misery, such as may happen to peasants or beggars; it is a real pain, and not a thing of a fancy or a nightmare of dreamland. III. 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. This hint only. John 18:19-40 - Glory on Trial A. Even as the hart panteth after the water brooks, our souls would thirst after thee, O God. 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. We can never forget the painful scenes of which we have been witness, when we have watched the dissolving of the human frame. "Wist ye not," said he, while yet a boy, "that I must be about my Father's business?" He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. We are in the world, but we must never be of it; we are not to be secluded like monks in the cloister, but we are to be separated like Jews among Gentiles; men, but not of men; helping, aiding, befriending, teaching, comforting, instructing, but not sinning either to escape a frown or to win a smile. Pilate, as we reminded you, scourged our Savior according to the common custom of Roman courts. I show unto you a more excellent way. For several Sabbath mornings my mind has been directed into subjects which I might fitly call the deep things of God. 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. (7) Luke 23:46 And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, "Father, INTO THY HANDS I COMMIT MY SPIRIT. Those pictures which represent our Lord as wearing the crown of thorns upon the tree have therefore at least some scriptural warrant. And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe. 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. 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? I will not say it is because we are unfaithful to our Master that the world is more kind to us, but I half suspect it is, and it is very possible that if we were more thoroughly Christians the world would more heartily detest us, and if we would cleave more closely to Christ we might expect to receive more slander, more abuse, less tolerance, and less favor from men. You have, then, no true sympathy for Christ if you have not an earnest sympathy with those who would win souls for Christ. Let us magnify and bless our Redeemer's name. 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." Fathers and confessors, preachers and divines have delighted to dwell upon every syllable of these matchless cries. 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. 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. But ye ask me where is the spouse, the king's daughter fair and beautiful? "To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise." Let us now gaze for awhile upon CHRIST CARRYING HIS CROSS. Complain not, then. 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. Hunger and thirst after righteousness, for you shall be filled. Jesus was deserted of God; and if he, who was only imputedly a sinner, was deserted, how much more shall you be? 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. How truly man he is; he is, indeed, "bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh," for he bears our infirmities. And said, Hail, King of the Jews! The mind of man is like the daughters of the horseleech, which cry for ever, "Give, give." 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