Come to him in prayer, come to him in fellowship, come to him by perfect consecration, come to him by surrendering your whole being to the sweet mysterious influences of his Spirit. Take up your cross, and go without the camp, following your Lord, even until death. The excitement of a great struggle makes men forget thirst and faintness; it is only when all is over that they come back to themselves and note the spending of their strength. 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." Do we not see here the truth of that which was set forth in shadow by the scape-goat? It is the way whereby many shall be brought to Christ, when this blessed soul-thirst of true Christian charity shall be upon those who are themselves saved. The Christian faith and motives for Christian worship are based on the certainty of facts. 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. Christians, will you refuse to be cross-bearers for Christ? 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. 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. Let us magnify and bless our Redeemer's name. Are you lukewarm? This is unfortunate, since his works contain priceless gems of information that are found nowhere except in the ancient writings of the Jews. It is calculated that one soul passes from time into eternity every time the clock ticks! 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. That man is a fool and deserves no pity, who purposely excites the disgust of other people. They prefer a ceremonial pompous and gaudy; the swell of music, the glitter of costly garments, the parade of learning all these must minister grandeur to the world's religion, and thus shut out the simple followers of the Lamb. 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?". Come let us pour out full flagons, until his joy is fulfilled in us. 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. what a black thought crosses our mind! My heart shall not be content till he is all in all to me, and I am altogether lost in him. It is not fit that he should live." This cross was a ponderous machine; not so heavy, perhaps, as some pictures would represent it, but still no light burden to a man whose shoulders were raw with the lashes of the Roman scourge. 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. Spurgeon left this earth for his heavenly hope in 1892. 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. 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. All this is a blessed clog upon us, and a means of keeping us more near the Lord. 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. John 19:16 . The words, "I thirst," are a common voice in death chambers. 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. He is not allowed to worship with them. 2 And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, . Jesus, being a man, escaped none of the ills which are allotted to man in death. Alas, man is the slave and the dupe of Satan, and a black-hearted traitor to his God. 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. In your chamber let the gasp of your Lord as he said, "I thirst," go through your ears, and as you hear it let it touch your heart and cause you to gird up yourself and say, "Doth he say, 'I thirst'? You are not, therefore, so poor as he. They would be very proper, very proper; God forbid that we should stay them, except with the gentle words of Christ, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me." What, then, dear friends, should be the sorrows excited by a view of Christ's sufferings? 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. It seems to me very wonderful that this "I thirst" should be, as it were, the clearance of it all. 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. You must consider Jesus, and not yourself; turn your eye to Christ, the great substitute for sinners, but never dream of trusting in yourselves. It is not likely that we shall be able to worship with their worship. John 19 Commentary John chapter 19 commentary Bible study. This is a kind of sweet whereof if a man hath much he must have more, and when he hath more he is under a still greater necessity to receive more, and so on, his appetite for ever growing by that which it feeds upon, till he is filled with all the fulness of God. So he was thirsting then. For him they have no tolerance. (John 19:11) Jesus answered, . And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou ? Conceal your religion? Glorious stoop of our exalted Head! The soldiery mocked and insulted him in every way that cruelty and scorn could devise. 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. We may well remember our faults this day. The more manifestly there shall be a great gulf between the Church and the world, the better shall it be for both; the better for the world, for it shall be thereby warned; the better for the Church, for it shall be thereby preserved. 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. It is a blow at the fable of purgatory which strikes it to the heart. If we be true to our Master we shall soon lose the friendship of the world. ( John 19:1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. Nor dost thou set a time for waiting, but instantly thou dost set wide the gate of pearl; thou hast all power in heaven as well as upon earth. It was one of Death's castles; here he stored his gloomiest trophies; he was the grim lord of that stronghold. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. Oh I raise the question, and be not satisfied unless you can answer it most positively in the affirmative. 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." It is done. He would have sacrificed himself to save his countrymen, so heartily did he desire their eternal welfare. It began with the mouth of appetite, when it was sinfully gratified, and it ends when a kindred appetite is graciously denied. 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. "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani," what an awful shriek! 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? Behold, my King is not without his crown alas, a crown of thorns set with ruby drops of blood! Ah, beloved, our Lord was so truly man that all our griefs remind us of him: the next time we are thirsty we may gaze upon him; and whenever we see a friend faint and thirsting while dying we may behold our Lord dimly, but truly, mirrored in his members. It was, "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often would I have gathered thy children together as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, but ye would not!" 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. How harshly grate the cruel syllables, "Crucify him! The Via Dolorosa, as the Romanists call it, is a long street at the present time, but it may have been but a few yards. Are you so frozen at heart that not a cup of cold water can be melted for Jesus? The last word but one, "It is finished." Nor is this all. Do not let the picture vanish till you have satisfied yourselves once for all that Christ was here the substitute for you. Trust in the Son of God and you shall never die. "I thirst," is his human body tormented by grievous pain. God forbid! We shall perhaps know it in our measure in our dying hour, but not yet, nor ever so terribly as he did. He is exiled from their friendship, too. Betrayal and arrest in the garden. Here is the safety of the believer in the hour of his departure, and his instant admission into the presence of his Lord. So were the streets of Jerusalem; for great multitudes followed him. 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. No, no; we must not make a cross of our own. He loved the Gentile, but still Jerusalem was the city of the Great King. Universal manhood, left to itself, rejects, crucifies, and mocks the Christ of God. 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. Includes cross references, questions, verse by verse commentary, outline, and applications on John chapter 19 for small groups. Jesus thirsted, then let us thirst in this dry and thirsty land where no water is. That impenitent thief went from the cross of his great agony and it was agony indeed to die on a cross he went to that place, to the flames of hell; and you, too, may go from the bed of sickness, and from the abode of poverty, to perdition, quite as readily as from the home of ease and the house of plenty. Thus have I tried to spy out a measure of teaching, by using that one glass for the soul's eye, through which we look upon "I thirst" as the ensign of his true humanity. II. 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 Heavenly hope in 1892 passes from time into eternity every time the clock!! 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