"And they took Jesus, and led him away." Did not the prophecies say that man would give to his incarnate God gall to eat and vinegar to drink? Do you not remember how that thirst of his was strong in the old days of the prophet? You are not, therefore, so poor as he. Bearing upon his back the sin of all his people, the offering goes without the camp. But my Prince is hated without a cause. Your path runs hard by that of your Master. 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. Then comes the "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" There was a deeper meaning in his words than she dreamed of, as a verse further down fully proves, when he said to his disciples, "I have meat to eat that ye know not of." 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. This is man's treatment of his Saviour. Mine is adorned with garments crimsoned with his own blood. While other religions create what appear to be worship-filled gatherings, they are empty and void of fact. 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. There are many other ways in which these words might be read, and they would be found to be all full of instruction. These are silken days, and religion fights not so stern a battle. As you look at the cross upon his shoulders does it represent your sin? It was one of Death's castles; here he stored his gloomiest trophies; he was the grim lord of that stronghold. Some of you will! Every word, therefore, you see teaches us some grand fundamental doctrine of our blessed faith. (1-3) Jesus enters the garden, followed by Judas and his troops. Hail, ye despised children of the sun, ye follow first after the King in the march of woe. John and Herod 1549 - Good News for Thirsty Souls 1550 - The Unspeakable Gift 1551 - Today! 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. II. I cannot think that natural thirst was all he felt. He must love, it is his nature. Although Simon carried Christ's cross, he did not volunteer to do it, but they compelled him. 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. Commentary on John 19:31-37 (Read John 19:31-37) A trial was made whether Jesus was dead. Did we not do so years ago before we knew him? We care, however, far more for the fact that he went forth carrying his cross upon his shoulders. We are to reckon upon all this, and should the worst befal us, it is to be no strange thing to us. What was he looking for from his vineyard and its winepress? Shake off the thought, any of you who suppose that God will have pity on you because you have endured affliction. I am not the One anointed of God to save mankind. John 1:21. You may think that this remark is not needed; but I have met with one or two cases where it was required; and I have often said I would preach a sermon for even one person, and, therefore, I make this remark, even though it should rebuke but one. Will your thoroughfares be thronged? Think of that! Nor is this all. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. Oh! Christ comes forth from Pilate's hall with the cumbrous wood upon his shoulder, but through weariness he travels slowly, and his enemies urgent for his death, and half afraid, from his emaciated appearance, that he may die before he reaches the place of execution, allow another to carry his burden. These are awful words, but they are not mine; they are the very words of God in Scripture. John, the gospel of faith by Harrison, Everett Falconer, 1902- from Everyman's Bible Commentary series. How has it been with you? 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. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. If you will look, there is the mark of his blood-red shoulder upon that heavy cross. He died in less time than persons crucified commonly did. They place the cross upon Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country. Alas, my brethren, I cannot say much on the score of man's cruelty to our Lord without touching myself and you. Largest collection of Spurgeon resources online, including a complete 63 volume set of sermons, audio sermons, books, and quotes. 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." He wants you brother, he wants you, dear sister, he longs to have you wholly to himself. Certainly it is so with you; you do but carry the light end of the cross; Christ bore the heavier end. (John 19:11) Jesus answered, . O to be enlarged in soul so as to take deeper draughts of his sweet love, for our heart cannot have enough. I saw the other day the emblem of a serpent with its tail in its mouth, and if I carry it a little beyond the artist's intention the symbol may set forth appetite swallowing up itself. As these seven sayings were so faithfully recorded, we do not wonder that they have frequently been the subject of devout meditation. Dear fountain of delight unknown! Even as the hart panteth after the water brooks, our souls would thirst after thee, O God. 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. He believed, as a Roman in gods many. 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. If not, bestir yourselves at once. 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. Our Lord, however, endured thirst to an extreme degree, for it was the thirst of death which was upon him, and more, it was the thirst of one whose death was not a common one, for "he tasted death for every man." That is very possible; Christ may have carried the heavier end, against the transverse beam, and Simon may have borne the lighter end. A new edition of Spurgeon's classic devotional using the ESV. They are created in the minds of men. And said, Hail, King of the Jews!_ The Lord bless you, for Jesus' own sake. See, it has been blackened with bruises, and stained with the shameful spittle of them that derided him. After preaching his first sermon at the age of 16, he became pastor of the church in Waterbeach at the age of 17. Have you repented of sin? He goes forth, then, bearing his cross. Believing this, let us tenderly feel how very near akin to us our Lord Jesus has become. 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. They are these Weep not because the Savior bled, but because your sins made him bleed. This hint only. 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. 29. Some of you will not be baptized because you think people will say, "He is a professor; how holy he ought to be." How truly man he is; he is, indeed, "bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh," for he bears our infirmities. John 19:3. 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. 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. Remember, dear friends, that what Christ suffered for us, these unregenerate ones must suffer for themselves, except they put their trust in Christ. How harshly grate the cruel syllables, "Crucify him! I think, beloved friends, that the cry of "I thirst" was THE MYSTICAL EXPRESSION OF THE DESIRE OF HIS HEART "I thirst." IV. 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. 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. Let me show what I think he meant. He pitied the sufferer, but he thought so little of him that he joined in the voice of scorn. Rutherford says, "Whenever Christ gives us a cross, he cries, 'Halves, my love.'" We see how the Holy Spirit wants us to pray. Is not this a fertile field of thought? 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. 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. One word: transformation. 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. Read Joo 15:7 bible commentary from Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible by Charles Haddon Spurgeon FREE on BiblePortal.com Complain not, then. 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? 1. 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. 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! 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. Know ye not, beloved, for I speak to those who know the Lord, that ye are crucified together with Christ? Jesus paused, and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me; but weep for yourselves and for your children." Let us muse upon the fact that Jesus was conducted without the gates of the city. There are no passages in all the public ministry of Jesus so tender as those which have regard to Jerusalem. I have touched that point very lightly because I want a little more time to dwell upon a fourth view of this scene. "Wist ye not," said he, while yet a boy, "that I must be about my Father's business?" "I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk; eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved." Trust in the Son of God and you shall never die. Let the sympathy of Christ, then, be fully believed in and deeply appreciated, since he said, "I thirst." He saith, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock." I have shown you, believer, your position; let me now show you your service. 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. We read, "The soldiers also mocked him, offering him vinegar." Partner with StudyLight.org as God uses us to make a difference for those displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine. In fact, the tendency is to exalt man above God and give him the highest place. 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. 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. May the Holy Spirit often lead us to glean therein. Well, then, what means this cry, "I thirst," but this, that we should thirst too? "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" 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." See, brethren, where sin begins, and mark that there it ends. What a cataract of immortal souls dashes downwards to the pit every hour! 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 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! 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. Nay more; he is banished from their society, as if he were a leper whose breath would be infectious whose presence would scatter plague. 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. 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. Beloved, let us comfort ourselves with this thought, that in our case, as in Simon's, it is not our cross, but Christ's cross which we carry. It was most fitting that every word of our Lord upon the cross should be gathered up and preserved. 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. He also knew well the terrible joy that comes only through suffering as he lived quite afflicted (both by illness and slander). Fix your hearts upon some unsaved one, and thirst until he is saved. John preached a sacrificial Saviour, a sin-bearing Saviour, a sin-atoning 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." The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. "Weep for yourselves," says Christ, "rather than for me." Here you see how the mortal flesh had to share in the agony of the inward spirit. 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. Are you so frozen at heart that not a cup of cold water can be melted for Jesus? Though Simon had to bear the cross for a very little while, it gave him lasting honor. 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. The most Scriptural way to describe the sufferings of Christ is not by laboring to excite sympathy through highly-coloured descriptions of his blood and wounds. Have you prayed for your fellow men? 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." 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 Are you lukewarm? Universal manhood, left to itself, rejects, crucifies, and mocks the Christ of God. Did I not describe last Sabbath the knotted scourges which fell upon the Saviours back? 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. Let each of us say "Tis all my business here below To cry, Behold the Lamb!" John 1:30-31. After our Lord Jesus Christ had been formally condemned by Pilate, our text tells us he was led away. 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. 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. What joy, what satisfaotion this will give if we can sing, "My soul looks back to see The burden thou didst bear, When hastening to the accursed tree, And knows her guilt was there!". With "I thirst" the evil is destroyed and receives its expiation. 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. 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. For several Sabbath mornings my mind has been directed into subjects which I might fitly call the deep things of God. 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." Our Lord is the Maker of the ocean and the waters that are above the firmament: it is his hand that stays or opens the bottles of heaven, and sendeth rain upon the evil and upon the good. Jesus was proved to be really man, because he suffered the pains which belong to manhood. Gatherings, they are not mine ; they are not mine ; they are the very words of to. 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