Hail, ye despised children of the sun, ye follow first after the King in the march of woe. She craved full flagons of love though she was already overpowered by it. Let patience have her perfect work. 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." Jesus was proved to be really man, because he suffered the pains which belong to manhood. We will now take the text in a third way, and may the Spirit of God instruct us once again. Have we not often given him vinegar to drink? He did not spare his Son the stripes. 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. It began with the mouth of appetite, when it was sinfully gratified, and it ends when a kindred appetite is graciously denied. We care, however, far more for the fact that he went forth carrying his cross upon his shoulders. Beloved, can you say he carried your sin? 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 Charles Haddon Spurgeon December 1, 1861 Scripture: John 19:30 From: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 7 It is Finished! 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. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. There are some who in company hold their tongues, and never say a good word for Christ. John 1 19-51 Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 1:19-51 John 1:19. John 19 Commentary John chapter 19 commentary Bible study. Is not this a fertile field of thought? When they had mocked him they pulled off the purple garment he had worn, this rough operation would cause much pain. 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! How harshly grate the cruel syllables, "Crucify him! John preached a sacrificial Saviour, a sin-bearing Saviour, a sin-atoning Saviour. 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. 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. According to modern thought man is a very fine and noble creature, struggling to become better. When our Lord cried, "Eloi, Eloi," and afterwards said, "I thirst," the persons around the cross said, "Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him," mocking him; and, according to Mark, he who gave the vinegar uttered much the same words. May God deliver you! Betrayal and arrest in the garden. 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. As you look at the cross upon his shoulders does it represent your sin? He believed, as a Roman in gods many. John, the gospel of faith by Harrison, Everett Falconer, 1902- from Everyman's Bible Commentary series. Can they be compared to generous wine? 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." So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. There are many other ways in which these words might be read, and they would be found to be all full of instruction. Add to Cart. 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. 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. 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. So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. Although Simon carried Christ's cross, he did not volunteer to do it, but they compelled him. 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? 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. 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. These are awful words, but they are not mine; they are the very words of God in Scripture. Next Saturday all eyes will be fixed on a great Prince who shall ride through our streets with his Royal Bride. I invite your attention to CHRIST AS LED FORTH. 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. Every word, therefore, you see teaches us some grand fundamental doctrine of our blessed faith. Let this mind be in you also. 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. No sufferings of ours have anything to do with the atonement of sin. 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. We know from experience that the present effect of sin in every man who indulges in it is thirst of soul. 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 nails were fastened in the most sensitive parts of the body, and the wounds were widened as the weight of his body dragged the nails through his blessed flesh, and tore his tender nerves. It is not fit that he should live." 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. Then they said, "Hail, King of the Jews!" And they struck Him with their hands. Nay more; he is banished from their society, as if he were a leper whose breath would be infectious whose presence would scatter plague. Pilate, as we reminded you, scourged our Savior according to the common custom of Roman courts. "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. "I thirst" meant that his heart was thirsting to save men. Beloved, let us thirst for the souls of our fellow-men. "Deliver him to the tormentors," was the word of the king in the parable; it shall be fulfilled to you "Depart ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels." John 19:7-8. 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." 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. 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. Oh I raise the question, and be not satisfied unless you can answer it most positively in the affirmative. Well, then, what means this cry, "I thirst," but this, that we should thirst too? The Lord bless you, for Jesus' own sake. 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. Oh! There are more unlikely things than that you will be dead before next Sunday. What but for the juice of the vine that he might be refreshed? 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. 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. Call to mind his complaint in the fifth chapter of Isaiah, "Now will I sing to my well beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. 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. 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. Amen. He is exiled from their friendship, too. His most fruitful years of ministry were at the New Park Street and later the Metropolitan Tabernacle pulpit in London. We used to melt when we heard about his sufferings, but we did not turn from our sins. 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. He must love, it is his nature. 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. What doth he say? One word: transformation. V. Lastly, the cry of "I thirst" is to us THE PATTERN OF OUR DEATH WITH HIM. Jesus thirsted, then let us thirst in this dry and thirsty land where no water is. Some of you will not be baptized because you think people will say, "He is a professor; how holy he ought to be." Certain philosophers have said that they love the pursuit of truth even better than the knowledge of truth. 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. A strong emphasis in Spurgeon's preaching was God's grace and sovereignty over man's helpless state. First, we shall look upon them as THE ENSIGN OF HIS TRUE HUMANITY. 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. 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