John 19:16 . This is man's treatment of his Saviour. John preached a sacrificial Saviour, a sin-bearing Saviour, a sin-atoning Saviour. But ye ask me where is the spouse, the king's daughter fair and beautiful? Scripture provides a wealth . These are silken days, and religion fights not so stern a battle. (1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. While other religions create what appear to be worship-filled gatherings, they are empty and void of fact. 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. ye Christian men, who dream of trimming your sails to the wind, who seek to win the world's favor, I do beseech you cease from a course so perilous. Hark how their loud voices demand that he should be hastened to execution! We will now take the text in a third way, and may the Spirit of God instruct us once again. "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.". 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. See, brethren, where sin begins, and mark that there it ends. Rutherford says, "Whenever Christ gives us a cross, he cries, 'Halves, my love.'" 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. Home; Origin; Birth; John; Acts; About; JOHN 19 COMMENTARY . Mine is adorned with garments crimsoned with his own blood. As you look at the cross upon his shoulders does it represent your sin? Dear fountain of delight unknown! 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. It was most fitting that every word of our Lord upon the cross should be gathered up and preserved. 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. Conceal your religion? According to modern thought man is a very fine and noble creature, struggling to become better. There is bread upon your table to-day, and there will be at least a cup of cold water to refresh you. How truly man he is; he is, indeed, "bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh," for he bears our infirmities. Hail, everlasting King in heaven, thou dost admit to thy paradise whomsoever thou wilt! 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. What learn we here as we see Christ led forth? 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. 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. 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. 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." "And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes," vinegar, and not wine; sourness, and not sweetness. (6) John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the sour wine, He said, " It is finished! Is not this a fertile field of thought? The sharpness of that sentence no exposition can fully disclose to us: it is keen as the very edge and point of the sword which pierced his heart. The Holy Spirit took special care that each of the sacred utterances should be fittingly recorded. The woes which broke the Savior's heart must crush theirs. 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. You have blessed company; your path is marked with footprints of your Lord. 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." Hail, ye despised children of the sun, ye follow first after the King in the march of woe. For the thousands of eyes which shall gaze upon the youthful Prince, I offer the gaze of men and angels. 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! No, no; we must not make a cross of our own. A refined and heavenly appetite, a craving for our Lord. why hast thou forsaken me?" "I thirst" meant that his heart was thirsting to save men. 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 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. Your heir of royalty is magnificently drawn along the streets in his stately chariot, sitting at his ease: my princely sufferer walks with weary feet, marking the road with crimson drops; not borne, but bearing; not carried, but carrying his cross. Dear friend, if you think that you suffer all that a Christian can suffer; if all God's billows roll over you, yet, remember, there is not one drop of wrath in all your sea of sorrow. "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Jesus was proved to be really man, because he suffered the pains which belong to manhood. 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. He saith, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock." "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do" is the first. The Redeemer's cry of "I thirst" is a solemn lesson of patience to his afflicted. The utterance of "I thirst" brought out A TYPE OF MAN'S TREATMENT OF HIS LORD. 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? who would stand in your place, ye richest, ye merriest, ye most self-righteous sinners who would stand in your place when God shall say, "Awake O sword against the rebel, against the man that rejected me; smite him, and let him feel the smart for ever!" We see in Simon's carrying the cross a picture of what the Church is to do throughout all generations. And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and they put on Him a purple robe. I invite your attention to CHRIST AS LED FORTH. 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." 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. 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. "To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise." 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? Next Saturday all eyes will be fixed on a great Prince who shall ride through our streets with his Royal Bride. April 14th, 1878 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. Beeke, Joel R. & Thompson, Nick. 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. To-day I invite your attention to another Prince, marching in another fashion through his metropolis. What doth he say? John and Herod 1549 - Good News for Thirsty Souls 1550 - The Unspeakable Gift 1551 - Today! We all know that a different dress will often raise a doubt about the identity of an individual; but lo! Remember that, and expect to suffer. "His way was much rougher and darker than mine; Did Christ, my Lord, suffer, and shall I repine?". Did I not describe last Sabbath the knotted scourges which fell upon the Saviours back? Next Saturday all eyes will be fixed on a great Prince who shall ride through our streets with his Royal Bride. Let the sympathy of Christ, then, be fully believed in and deeply appreciated, since he said, "I thirst." A new edition of Spurgeon's classic devotional using the ESV. 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. He is thirsty still, you see, for our poor love, and surely we cannot deny it to him. 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. Beloved, can you say he carried your sin? "After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst." "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." And yet, though he was Lord of all he had so fully taken upon himself the form of a servant and was so perfectly made in the likeness of sinful flesh, that he cried with fainting voice, "I thirst." 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?". And said, Hail, King of the Jews! But what shall be your cry when you shall say, "Good God! He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. What a cataract of immortal souls dashes downwards to the pit every hour! 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. Fix your hearts upon some unsaved one, and thirst until he is saved. He must love his chosen whom he has once begun to love, for he is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. 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. John 19:3. 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. He also knew well the terrible joy that comes only through suffering as he lived quite afflicted (both by illness and slander). More solemn still is the reflection that according to our Lord's own teaching, thirst will also be the eternal result of sin, for he says concerning the rich glutton, "In hell he lift up his eyes, being in torment," and his prayer, which was denied him, was, "Father Abraham, send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame." It is almost done, thou Christ of God; thou hast almost saved thy people; there remaineth but one thing more, that thou shouldst actually die, and hence thy strong desire to come to the end and complete thy labour. May we not despise our loaded table while he is neglected? For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh." When they had mocked him they pulled off the purple garment he had worn, this rough operation would cause much pain. II. Our Lord Jesus came forth, willing to be exposed to their scorn. As Spurgeon puts it "Faith is described as 'receiving' Jesus. The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God. Can you help feeling how very near Jesus is to us when his lips must be moistened with a sponge, and he must be so dependent upon others as to ask drink from their hand? 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. Christians, will you refuse to be cross-bearers for Christ? And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou ? 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. They are created in the minds of men. Romish expositors, who draw upon their prolific fancy for their facts, tell us that he had a rope about his neck with which they roughly dragged him to the tree; this is one of the most probable of their surmises, since it was not unusual for the Romans thus to conduct criminals to the gallows. I am glad the world expects much from us, and watches us narrowly. May the Holy Spirit often lead us to glean therein. It was one of Death's castles; here he stored his gloomiest trophies; he was the grim lord of that stronghold. 'Tis his cross, and he goes before you as a shepherd goes before his sheep. You may die so, you may die now. You have seen Jesus led away by his enemies; so shall you be dragged away by fiends to the place appointed for you. ", When a brother makes confession of his transgressions, when on his knees before God he humbles himself with many tears, I am sure the Lord thinks far more of the tears of repentance than he would do of the mere drops of human sympathy. 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? Jesus, being a man, escaped none of the ills which are allotted to man in death. 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. It is calculated that one soul passes from time into eternity every time the clock ticks! No man dare call him friend now, or whisper a word of comfort to him. 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. 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 . Oh, wondrous substitution of the just for the unjust, of God for man, of the perfect Christ for us guilty, hell-deserving rebels. Although Simon carried Christ's cross, he did not volunteer to do it, but they compelled him. We can never forget the painful scenes of which we have been witness, when we have watched the dissolving of the human frame. Some of you will not be baptized because you think people will say, "He is a professor; how holy he ought to be." I have sometimes met with persons who have suffered much; they have lost money, they have worked hard all their lives, or they have laid for years upon a bed of sickness, and they therefore suppose that because they have suffered so much in this life, they shall thus escape the punishment of sin hereafter. 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 So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. Let us exult as we see our Substitute going through with his work even to the bitter end, and then with a "Consummatum est" returning to his Father, God. 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. The cup of which thou art made to drink, though it be very bitter, bears the mark of his lips about its brim. 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 Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 19 John 19:1-16 John 19:1. This thirst had been on him from the earliest of his earthly days. 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