(1-3) Jesus enters the garden, followed by Judas and his troops. 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. The sufferings of Christ should make us weep over those who have brought that blood upon their heads. Well, beloved, the cross we have to carry is only for a little while at most. 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. John and Herod 1549 - Good News for Thirsty Souls 1550 - The Unspeakable Gift 1551 - Today! The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. Beloved, can you say he carried your sin? Commentary on John 19:31-37 (Read John 19:31-37) A trial was made whether Jesus was dead. Do not let us forget the infinite distance between the Lord of glory on his throne and the Crucified dried up with thirst. My heart shall not be content till he is all in all to me, and I am altogether lost in him. How has it been with you? (1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. I invite your attention to CHRIST AS LED FORTH. Alas poor African, thou hast been compelled to carry the cross even until now. 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? 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. When they had mocked him they pulled off the purple garment he had worn, this rough operation would cause much pain. 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. Take up your cross daily and follow him. He wants you brother, he wants you, dear sister, he longs to have you wholly to himself. The spear broke up the very fountains of life; no human body could survive such a wound. IV. 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 Did not the high-priest bring the scape-goat, and put both his hands upon its head, confessing the sins of the people, that thus those sins might be laid upon the goat? 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. 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. For the thousands of eyes which shall gaze upon the youthful Prince, I offer the gaze of men and angels. With "I thirst" the evil is destroyed and receives its expiation. Mine is adorned with garments crimsoned with his own blood. It showed that he had laid down his life of himself. Did he not tell his disciples, "I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished?" What, then, dear friends, should be the sorrows excited by a view of Christ's sufferings? Every word, therefore, you see teaches us some grand fundamental doctrine of our blessed faith. 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. Come hither, ye lovers of Immanuel, and I will show you this great sight the King of sorrow marching to his throne of grief, the cross. If not, may that picture of Christ fainting in the streets lead you to do so this morning. 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. The woes which broke the Savior's heart must crush theirs. I have already told you that such was our Lord's mystical desire; let it be ours also. 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. You and I have nothing else to preach. Can they be compared to generous wine? 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." Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was born in Essex, England. 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. This was the homage which the Son of God received from men; harmless and gentle, he came here with no purpose but that of doing good, and this is how mankind treated him. But my Prince is hated without a cause. Nay more; he is banished from their society, as if he were a leper whose breath would be infectious whose presence would scatter plague. Amen. It is not sorrow over Rome, but Jerusalem. It was a confirmation of the Scripture testimony with regard to man's natural enmity to God. 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. "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani," what an awful shriek! London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. away with him." May God deliver you! Perhaps, dear sister, you carry about with you a gnawing disease which eats at your heart, but Jesus took our sicknesses, and his cup was more bitter than yours. Do not forget, also, that you bear this cross in partnership. 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. May we not be half ashamed of our pleasures when he says, "I thirst"? John 19:7-8. Think of that! The reed was no mere rush from the brook, it was of a stouter kind, of which easterns often make walkingstaves, the blows were cruel as well as insulting; and the crown was not of straw but thorn, hence it produced pain as well as pictured scorn. We ought not to forget the Jews. wherein we see the Son of man in the gentleness of a son caring for his bereaved mother. Those once highly favored people of God who cursed themselves with, "His blood be upon us and upon our children," ought to make us mourn when we think of their present degradation. 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." London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. 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. 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. 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 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. 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. 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. Who among us would not willingly pour out his soul unto death if he might but give refreshment to the Lord? 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. You see there the multitude are leading him forth from the temple. 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. It is a blow at the fable of purgatory which strikes it to the heart. 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." 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." "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." 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. When you are molested for your piety; when your religion brings the trial of cruel mockings upon you; then remember, it is not your cross, it is Christ's cross; and how delightful is it to carry the cross of our Lord Jesus? Home; Origin; Birth; John; Acts; About; JOHN 19 COMMENTARY . Secondly, we shall regard these words, "I thirst," as THE TOKEN OF HIS SUFFERING SUBSTITUTION. 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. sinner, if God hides his face from Christ, how much less will he spare you! John 19:4-5. We shall by the assistance of the Holy Spirit try to regard these words of our Saviour in a five-fold light. It seems to me very wonderful that this "I thirst" should be, as it were, the clearance of it all. After our Lord Jesus Christ had been formally condemned by Pilate, our text tells us he was led away. Jesus said, "I thirst," and this is the complaint of a man. He must love his chosen whom he has once begun to love, for he is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. How truly man he is; he is, indeed, "bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh," for he bears our infirmities. Believing this, let us tenderly feel how very near akin to us our Lord Jesus has become. I am glad the world expects much from us, and watches us narrowly. Do you not remember how that thirst of his was strong in the old days of the prophet? He thirsts to bless you and to receive your grateful love in return; he thirsts to see you looking with believing eye to his fulness, and holding out your emptiness that he may supply it. The extreme tension produced a burning feverishness. 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." C.H. These are silken days, and religion fights not so stern a battle. 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. If we be true to our Master we shall soon lose the friendship of the world. Well might the Master say, "Weep not for me, but for yourselves." It was one of Death's castles; here he stored his gloomiest trophies; he was the grim lord of that stronghold. Betrayal and arrest in the garden. We all know that a different dress will often raise a doubt about the identity of an individual; but lo! "I thirst" meant that his heart was thirsting to save men. 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." Amen. Spurgeon left this earth for his heavenly hope in 1892. ( John 19:1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. Oh I raise the question, and be not satisfied unless you can answer it most positively in the affirmative. Beloved, let us thirst for the souls of our fellow-men. It was a thirst such as none of us have ever known, for not yet has the death dew condensed upon our brows. There have been times, and the days may come again, when faithfulness to Christ has entailed exclusion from what is called "society." You carry the cross after him. Scripture provides a wealth . A refined and heavenly appetite, a craving for our Lord. Lloyd-Jones opens John 19:31-37 to answer that very question. Includes cross references, questions, verse by verse commentary, outline, and applications on John chapter 19 for small groups. Oh! God forbid! Have we not often given him vinegar to drink? "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. In the Lord of Hosts, who shows his power in the sufferings of Christ and of his Church. If you will look, there is the mark of his blood-red shoulder upon that heavy cross. 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. Oh, shame that men should find so much applause for Princes and none for the King of kings. Christians, will you refuse to be cross-bearers for Christ? Oh! And they asked him, What then? No, no; we must not make a cross of our own. I think that Roman soldier meant well, at least well for a rough warrior with his little light and knowledge. 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. Hunger and thirst after righteousness, for you shall be filled. 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." 1089 - The Man Greatly Beloved . 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. (6) John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the sour wine, He said, " It is finished! 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? 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. Say not that the comparison is strained, for in a moment I will withdraw it and present the contrast. 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. 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? 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." We read, "The soldiers also mocked him, offering him vinegar." 1. 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. We do not thirst after the old manner wherein we were bitterly afflicted, for he hath said, "He that drinketh of this water shall never thirst:" but now we covet a new thirst. "'Twere you my sins, my cruel sins, His chief tormentors were; Each of my grimes became a nail, And unbelief the spear. Yes, he loves to be with his people; they are the garden where he walks for refreshment, and their love, their graces, are the milk and wine which he delights to drink. 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. It is not likely that we shall be able to worship with their worship. 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. 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. You must consider Jesus, and not yourself; turn your eye to Christ, the great substitute for sinners, but never dream of trusting in yourselves. 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. No man dare call him friend now, or whisper a word of comfort to him. 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. The soldiery mocked and insulted him in every way that cruelty and scorn could devise. There is bread upon your table to-day, and there will be at least a cup of cold water to refresh you. 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. Oh, wondrous substitution of the just for the unjust, of God for man, of the perfect Christ for us guilty, hell-deserving rebels.
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