He can receive vinegar, but not lukewarm love. See, brethren, where sin begins, and mark that there it ends. 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. There are some who in company hold their tongues, and never say a good word for Christ. John 19 Commentary John chapter 19 commentary Bible study. 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. Your path runs hard by that of your Master. 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. With "I thirst" the evil is destroyed and receives its expiation. 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." what a black thought crosses our mind! He goes forth, then, bearing his cross. It is not fit that he should live." After preaching his first sermon at the age of 16, he became pastor of the church in Waterbeach at the age of 17. 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. 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. How they led him forth we do not know. 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. But how vast was the disparity! This was the act too of man at his best, when he is moved to pity; for it seems clear that he who lifted up the wet sponge to the Redeemer's lips, did it in compassion. Today! Let me add, that when we look at the sufferings of Christ, we ought to sorrow deeply for the souls of all unregenerate men and women. He was innocent, and yet he thirsted; shall we marvel if guilty ones are now and then chastened? 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." Amen. A few times the sun will go up and down the hill; a few more moons will wax and wane, and then we shall receive the glory. Are you lukewarm? Will ye raise a clamor of tumultuous shouting? 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. Christians, will you refuse to be cross-bearers for Christ? I show unto you a more excellent way. And well they may; the son of such noble parents deserves a nation's love. He died in less time than persons crucified commonly did. 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." He did not spare his Son the stripes. He believed, as a Roman in gods many. 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. 1089 - The Man Greatly Beloved . Commentators like Thomas Manton and John Calvin are represented in this series. 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. You have, then, no true sympathy for Christ if you have not an earnest sympathy with those who would win souls for Christ. 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. Will your Prince be decorated with honors? 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. 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. Alas poor African, thou hast been compelled to carry the cross even until now. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. 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. 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. 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. 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. No, no; we must not make a cross of our own. The spear broke up the very fountains of life; no human body could survive such a wound. The world has in former days counted it God's service to kill the saints. For several Sabbath mornings my mind has been directed into subjects which I might fitly call the deep things of God. As Spurgeon puts it "Faith is described as 'receiving' Jesus. Great and worshipful being that he is, truth is to be altered for him, the gospel is to be modulated to suit the tone of his various generations, and all the arrangements of the universe are to be rendered subservient to his interests. How truly man he is; he is, indeed, "bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh," for he bears our infirmities. Dear friends, we must remember that, although no one died on the cross with Christ, for atonement must be executed by a solitary Savior, yet another person did carry the cross for Christ; for this world, while redeemed by price by Christ, and by Christ alone, is to be redeemed by divine power manifested in the sufferings and labors of the saints as well as those of Christ. 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." John Chapter 19 - In-depth, verse-by-verse commentary and Bible study of John chapter 19 in plain English. Here you see how the mortal flesh had to share in the agony of the inward spirit. We can never forget the painful scenes of which we have been witness, when we have watched the dissolving of the human frame. Usually the crier went before with an announcement such as this, "This is Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews, who for making himself a King, and stirring up the people, has been condemned to die." To-day I invite your attention to another Prince, marching in another fashion through his metropolis. We do not know what may have been the color of alimony face, but it was most likely black. We would fain lift thy name on high in grateful remembrance of the depths to which thou didst descend! O to be enlarged in soul so as to take deeper draughts of his sweet love, for our heart cannot have enough. Have you prayed for your fellow men? 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. 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. Conceal your religion? It is the opinion of some commentators that Simon only carried one end of the cross, and not the whole of it. The mind of man is like the daughters of the horseleech, which cry for ever, "Give, give." He must love his chosen whom he has once begun to love, for he is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. John 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. Our Lord in his death-cries, as in all else, was perfection itself. Conservative, but not too much depth. 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. Now Christ standing in the stead of the ungodly suffers thirst as a type of his enduring the result of sin. John 1 19-51 Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 1:19-51 John 1:19. Add to Cart. They take matters very gently; they think it unnecessary to be soldiers of the cross. 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. 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 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." "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." John, the gospel of faith by Harrison, Everett Falconer, 1902- from Everyman's Bible Commentary series. 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 saw its streets flowing like bloody rivers; he saw the temple naming up to heaven; he marked the walls loaded with Jewish captives crucified by command of Titus; he saw the city razed to the ground and sown with salt, and he said, "Weep not for me, but for yourselves and for your children, for the day shall come when ye shall say to the rocks, Hide us, and to the mountains, Fall upon us." 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 . Inductive Bible study on John 19. It is not sorrow over Rome, but Jerusalem. Have you repented of sin? This is man's treatment of his Saviour. John 19:7-8. The Redeemer's cry of "I thirst" is a solemn lesson of patience to his afflicted. I think that Roman soldier meant well, at least well for a rough warrior with his little light and knowledge. Let me show what I think he meant. This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. Certain philosophers have said that they love the pursuit of truth even better than the knowledge of truth. I believe there was a tenderness in Christ's heart to the Jew of a special character. Let us now gaze for awhile upon CHRIST CARRYING HIS CROSS. After our Lord Jesus Christ had been formally condemned by Pilate, our text tells us he was led away. He is not allowed to worship with them. O souls, burdened with sin, rest ye here, and resting live. 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. What whips of steel for you, what knots of burning wire for you, when conscience shall smite you, when the law shall scourge you with its ten-thonged whip! You have blessed company; your path is marked with footprints of your Lord. 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. 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. This hint only. 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. 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. Neither in torture of body nor in sadness of heart are we deserted by our Lord; his line is parallel with ours. (1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. He derived spiritual refreshment from the winning of that women's heart to himself. Let the sympathy of Christ, then, be fully believed in and deeply appreciated, since he said, "I thirst." 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. Nay more; he is banished from their society, as if he were a leper whose breath would be infectious whose presence would scatter plague. You do suffer. 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. Oh! He calls for that: will you not give it to him? The lictors executed their cruel office upon his shoulders with their rods and scourges, until the stripes had reached the full number. The Church must suffer, that the gospel may be spread by her means. April 14th, 1878 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). In that cry there is reconciliation to God. There is bread upon your table to-day, and there will be at least a cup of cold water to refresh you. Let all your love be his. In the same song he speaks of his church, and says, "The roof of thy mouth is as the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak." away with him." 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? The voice of sympathy prevailed over the voice of scorn. But power is wanted to dash down those idols, to overcome the hosts of error; where is it to be found? 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." Will your Prince be sumptuously arrayed? I invite your attention to CHRIST AS LED FORTH. I claim for the procession of my Lord an interest superior to the pageant you are now so anxiously expecting. 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! 1 So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. Such a greeting had the Lord of glory, but alas, it was not the shout of welcome, but the yell of "Away with him! In the fourth place, one or two words upon CHRIST'S FELLOW-SUFFERERS. And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and they put on Him a purple robe. All nations gathered about my Lord, both great and mean men clustered around his person. There are many other ways in which these words might be read, and they would be found to be all full of instruction. 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. For the thousands of eyes which shall gaze upon the youthful Prince, I offer the gaze of men and angels. Our Lord Jesus came forth, willing to be exposed to their scorn. I am glad the world expects much from us, and watches us narrowly. 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. 2 And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, . (John 19:11) Jesus answered, . II. No longer sink below the brim; But overflow, and pour me down A living and life-giving stream.". I do not know how far it was from Pilate's house to the Mount of Doom. 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. Dear fountain of delight unknown! We used to melt when we heard about his sufferings, but we did not turn from our sins. What but for the juice of the vine that he might be refreshed? Brother, thirst to have your children save. His great love makes him thirst to have us much nearer than we are; he will never be satisfied till all his redeemed are beyond gunshot of thee enemy. 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! Your Prince is surrounded by a multitude of friends; hark how they joyously welcome him! While other religions create what appear to be worship-filled gatherings, they are empty and void of fact. "Weep for yourselves," says Christ, "rather than for me." 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. It is the empty cup placed under the flowing stream; the penniless hand held out for heavenly alms." . 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. Have we not often given him vinegar to drink? 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. 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. 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. May we not despise our loaded table while he is neglected? What was he looking for from his vineyard and its winepress? Save your tears for them; Christ asks them not in sympathy for himself. Think of that! Think, dear friends, there are some in this congregation who as yet have no interest in Jesu's blood, some sitting next to you, your nearest friends who, if they were now to close their eyes in death, would open them in hell! Do you not remember how that thirst of his was strong in the old days of the prophet? 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." 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?". Shall the servant be above his Master, or the disciple above his Lord? "I thirst" meant that his heart was thirsting to save men. And what makes him love us so? 1. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it. Romanists of all ages have wrought upon the feelings of the people in this manner, and to a degree the attempt is commendable, but if it shall all end in tears of pity, no good is done. Weep not for him, but for these. Some of you will! 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. I have touched that point very lightly because I want a little more time to dwell upon a fourth view of this scene. Let us muse upon the fact that Jesus was conducted without the gates of the city. What a cataract of immortal souls dashes downwards to the pit every hour! 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. It was a thirst such as none of us have ever known, for not yet has the death dew condensed upon our brows. 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. Fathers and confessors, preachers and divines have delighted to dwell upon every syllable of these matchless cries. But ye ask me where is the spouse, the king's daughter fair and beautiful? Our great hero, the destroyer of Death, bearded the lion in his den, slew the monster in his own castle, and dragged the dragon captive from his own den. Every word, therefore, you see teaches us some grand fundamental doctrine of our blessed faith. 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. And said, Hail, King of the Jews! "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Remember that, and expect to suffer. I am ashamed of some professed Christians, heartily ashamed of them! 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? If you will look, there is the mark of his blood-red shoulder upon that heavy cross. 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. 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. 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. May we not be half ashamed of our pleasures when he says, "I thirst"? In the former cry, as he opened Paradise, you saw the Son of God; now you see him who was verily and truly born of a women, made under the law; and under the law you see him still, for he honours his mother and cares for her in the last article of death. "Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, and touch not the unclean thing." 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. 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!" The cup of which thou art made to drink, though it be very bitter, bears the mark of his lips about its brim. 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. " And having said this, He breathed His last. Amen. For his sake we may rejoice in self-denials, and accept Christ and a crust as all we desire between here and heaven. It was a confirmation of the Scripture testimony with regard to man's natural enmity to God. According to modern thought man is a very fine and noble creature, struggling to become better. As you look at the cross upon his shoulders does it represent your sin? 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