How great the love which led him to such a condescension as this! 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. 1. You carry the cross after him. 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. Pilate, as we reminded you, scourged our Savior according to the common custom of Roman courts. We do not read that they removed the crown of thorns, and therefore it is most probable, though not absolutely certain, that our Savior wore it along the Via Dolorosa, and also bore it upon his head when he was fastened to the cross. is the fourth cry, and it illustrates the penalty endured by our Substitute when he bore our sins, and so was forsaken of his God. He had been all night in agony, he had spent the early morning at the hall of Caiaphas, he had been hurried, as I described to you last Sunday, from Caiaphas to Pilate, from Pilate to Herod, and from Herod back again to Pilate; he had, therefore, but little strength left, and you will not wonder that by-and-bye we find him staggering beneath his load, and that another is called to bear it with him. 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. (John 19:11) Jesus answered, . Now, I am not sure that we ought to blame ourselves for this. are they not more like sharp vinegar? 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." Shall the servant be above his Master, or the disciple above his Lord? 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. 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. He came to save, and man denied him hospitality: at the first there was no room for him at the inn, and at the last there was not one cool cup of water for him to drink; but when he thirsted they gave him vinegar to drink. Metaphorically understood, thirst is dissatisfaction, the craving of the mind for something which it has not, but which it pines for. Hail, ye despised children of the sun, ye follow first after the King in the march of woe. The high places of earth's worship and honor are not for us. 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. First, we shall look upon them as THE ENSIGN OF HIS TRUE HUMANITY. John 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. Jesus said, "I thirst," and this is the complaint of a man. And they asked him, What then? They are created in the minds of men. I invite you to meditate upon the true humanity of our Lord very reverently, and very lovingly. O souls, burdened with sin, rest ye here, and resting live. "After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst." "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani," what an awful shriek! 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. You young believers, who have lately followed Christ, should father and mother forsake you, remember you were bidden to reckon upon it; should brothers and sisters deride, you must put this down as part of the cost of being a Christian. 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. I do not know how far it was from Pilate's house to the Mount of Doom. Let us now gaze for awhile upon CHRIST CARRYING HIS CROSS. 1 So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. I invite your attention to CHRIST AS LED FORTH. Our first parents plucked forbidden fruit, and by eating slew the race. Read Joo 15:7 bible commentary from Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible by Charles Haddon Spurgeon FREE on BiblePortal.com 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. Jesus was proved to be really man, because he suffered the pains which belong to manhood. Yet his language teaches us not to worship her, for he calls her "woman," but to honor him in whom his direst agony thought of her needs and griefs, as he also thinks of all his people, for these are his mother and sister and brother. John 19:16 . "And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes," vinegar, and not wine; sourness, and not sweetness. We know from experience that the present effect of sin in every man who indulges in it is thirst of soul. It was one of Death's castles; here he stored his gloomiest trophies; he was the grim lord of that stronghold. Ray Stedman 'Tis his cross, and he goes before you as a shepherd goes before his sheep. What knocks he for? 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. 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. 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. " And He bowed His head, and gave up His spirit. Such a greeting had the Lord of glory, but alas, it was not the shout of welcome, but the yell of "Away with 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? 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. Shall it ever be a hardship to be denied the satisfying draught when he said, "I thirst." points to the anguish of his soul; "I thirst" expresses in part the torture of his body; and they were both needful, because it is written of the God of justice that he is "able to destroy both soul and body in hell," and the pangs that are due to law are of both kinds, touching both heart and flesh. 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. 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." "I thirst," ay, this is my soul's word with her Lord. 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. 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. 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. He did not spare his Son the stripes. The last expiring word in which he commended his spirit to his Father, is the note of acceptance for himself and for us all. 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. I am ashamed of some professed Christians, heartily ashamed of them! Partner with StudyLight.org as God uses us to make a difference for those displaced by Russia's war on Ukraine. And what makes him love us so? 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. Next Saturday all eyes will be fixed on a great Prince who shall ride through our streets with his Royal Bride. No longer sink below the brim; But overflow, and pour me down A living and life-giving stream.". We ought not to forget the Jews. We are to reckon upon all this, and should the worst befal us, it is to be no strange thing to us. She craved full flagons of love though she was already overpowered by it. In the fourth place, one or two words upon CHRIST'S FELLOW-SUFFERERS. Mine is adorned with garments crimsoned with his own blood. Did I not describe last Sabbath the knotted scourges which fell upon the Saviours back? II. Let all your love be his. Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 19 John 19:1-16 John 19:1. 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!" Mark then, Christian, Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. Alas, man is the slave and the dupe of Satan, and a black-hearted traitor to his God. Come, bring him your warm heart, and let him drink from that purified chalice as much as he wills. Our Lord in his death-cries, as in all else, was perfection itself. Alas poor African, thou hast been compelled to carry the cross even until now. You have blessed company; your path is marked with footprints of your Lord. He also knew well the terrible joy that comes only through suffering as he lived quite afflicted (both by illness and slander). 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. 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. To-day I invite your attention to another Prince, marching in another fashion through his metropolis. As Spurgeon puts it "Faith is described as 'receiving' Jesus. ye unregenerate men and women, and there are not a few such here now, remember that when God saw Christ in the sinner's place he did not spare him, and when he finds you without Christ, he will not spare you. Holy Scripture remains the basis of our faith, established by every word and act of our Redeemer. Will your Prince be decorated with honors? John 19:7-8. He who stood in our stead has finished all his work, and now his spirit comes back to the Father, and he brings us with him. In fact, the tendency is to exalt man above God and give him the highest place. There are many other ways in which these words might be read, and they would be found to be all full of instruction. While other religions create what appear to be worship-filled gatherings, they are empty and void of fact. Did not the prophecies say that man would give to his incarnate God gall to eat and vinegar to drink? The Christian faith and motives for Christian worship are based on the certainty of facts. When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid: It shows he was afraid all along the coward the vacillating coward and now a fresh superstition seizes upon him. We may well remember our faults this day. Beloved, let us thirst for the souls of our fellow-men. Oh, shame that men should find so much applause for Princes and none for the King of kings. 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. 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. Go ye, then, like the Master, expecting to be abused, to wear an ill-name, and to earn reproach; go ye, like him, without the camp. Did he not tell his disciples, "I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished?" 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. But further, my brethren; this, I think, is the great lesson from Christ's being slaughtered without the gate of the city let us go forth, therefore, without the camp, bearing his reproach. 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?". 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? 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. See, brethren, here is a picture of what we may expect from men if we are faithful to our Master. Will your thoroughfares be thronged? 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." Let me show what I think he meant. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. II. It is done. 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. Take up your cross, and go without the camp, following your Lord, even until death. But what shall be your cry when you shall say, "Good God! 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! He would have sacrificed himself to save his countrymen, so heartily did he desire their eternal welfare. crucify him!" The whole universe shall hiss you; angels shall be ashamed of you; your own friends, yes, your sainted mother, shall say "Amen" to your condemnation; and those who loved you best shall sit as assessors with Christ to judge you and condemn you! John 19:16 . 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. "I thirst," is his human body tormented by grievous pain. That man is a fool and deserves no pity, who purposely excites the disgust of other people. 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. What doth he say? 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." It began with the mouth of appetite, when it was sinfully gratified, and it ends when a kindred appetite is graciously denied. John and Herod 1549 - Good News for Thirsty Souls 1550 - The Unspeakable Gift 1551 - Today! "To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise." Conceal your religion? So he was thirsting then. Methinks Death thought it a splendid triumph when he saw the Master impaled and bleeding in the dominions of destruction; little did he know that the grave was to be rifled, and himself destroyed, by that crucified Son of man. Alas, my brethren, I cannot say much on the score of man's cruelty to our Lord without touching myself and you. It is not sorrow over Rome, but Jerusalem. You and I have nothing else to preach. Well might the Master say, "Weep not for me, but for yourselves." These are awful words, but they are not mine; they are the very words of God in Scripture. Even as the hart panteth after the water brooks, our souls would thirst after thee, O God. 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." Volume 19, Sermons 1089-1149 (1873) Hide. 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. He thirsted to pluck us from between the jaws of hell, to pay our redemption price, and set us free from the eternal condemnation which hung over us; and when on the cross the work was almost done his thirst was not assuaged, and could not be till he could say, "It is finished." I am not the One anointed of God to save mankind. John 1:21. May we not despise our loaded table while he is neglected? Includes cross references, questions, verse by verse commentary, outline, and applications on John chapter 19 for small groups. Thirst is no royal grief, but an evil of universal manhood; Jesus is brother to the poorest and most humble of our race. As Christ went through the streets, a great multitude looked on. 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." 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. John 19:28 . The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. Jesus thirsted, then let us thirst in this dry and thirsty land where no water is. He believed, as a Roman in gods many. The mind of man is like the daughters of the horseleech, which cry for ever, "Give, give." And well they may; the son of such noble parents deserves a nation's love. One would have said, If he were thirsty he would not tell us, for all the clouds and rains would be glad to refresh his brow, and the brooks and streams would joyously flow at his feet. Last Sunday the remark was made to me "If the story of the sufferings of Christ had been told of any other man, all the congregation would have been in tears." Today! See, it has been blackened with bruises, and stained with the shameful spittle of them that derided him. Hail, everlasting King in heaven, thou dost admit to thy paradise whomsoever thou wilt! Some of you will! Here is the safety of the believer in the hour of his departure, and his instant admission into the presence of his Lord. 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. Appetite was the door of sin, and therefore in that point our Lord was put to pain. 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. 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. 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. The lictors executed their cruel office upon his shoulders with their rods and scourges, until the stripes had reached the full number. Oh! He pitied the sufferer, but he thought so little of him that he joined in the voice of scorn. Although Simon carried Christ's cross, he did not volunteer to do it, but they compelled him. Fathers and confessors, preachers and divines have delighted to dwell upon every syllable of these matchless cries. Amen. There are some who in company hold their tongues, and never say a good word for Christ. He knew once how to turn water into wine, and in matchless love he has often turned our sour drink-offerings into something sweet to himself, though in themselves, methinks, they have been the juice of sour grapes, sharp enough to set his teeth on edge. 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. As not a bone of him shall be broken, so not a word shall be lost. Of the many benefits we have in learning from Paul, a few stand out:1. We thought sometimes that we loved him as we heard the story of his death, but we did not change our lives for his sake, nor put our trust in him, and so we gave him vinegar to drink. This very plainly sets forth the true and proper humanity of Christ, who to the end recognised his human relationship to Mary, of whom he was born. 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. 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." "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." 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." 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. 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