If we be true to our Master we shall soon lose the friendship of the world. One word: transformation. London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. 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. 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 This is man's treatment of his Saviour. Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 19 John 19:1-16 John 19:1. 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. Jesus was proved to be really man, because he suffered the pains which belong to manhood. Nay more; he is banished from their society, as if he were a leper whose breath would be infectious whose presence would scatter plague. 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. There can be no shadow of doubt but that our Lord was really crucified, and no one substituted for him. We should love the cross, and count it very dear, because it works out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. 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. 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! 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 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. Our first parents plucked forbidden fruit, and by eating slew the race. Fathers and confessors, preachers and divines have delighted to dwell upon every syllable of these matchless cries. Christ must die a felon's death, and it must be upon the felon's gallows, in the place where horrid crimes had met their due reward. But power is wanted to dash down those idols, to overcome the hosts of error; where is it to be found? Glorious stoop of our exalted Head! May the Holy Spirit often lead us to glean therein. "I thirst," ay, this is my soul's word with her Lord. You may sit under a sermon, and feel a great deal, but your feeling is worthless unless it leads you to weep for yourselves and for your children. First, we shall look upon them as THE ENSIGN OF HIS TRUE HUMANITY. The Geneva Series of Commentaries include historic commentaries on biblical books written by some of the great theologians in the history of the church. 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. The sufferings of Christ should make us weep over those who have brought that blood upon their heads. May we not be half ashamed of our pleasures when he says, "I thirst"? Will your thoroughfares be thronged? Well, then, what means this cry, "I thirst," but this, that we should thirst too? How near akin the thirsty Saviour is to us; let us love him more and more. Here is the forgiveness of sin free forgiveness in answer to the Saviour's plea. "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani," what an awful shriek! . 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. They force him without the walls, and are not satisfied till they have rid themselves of his obnoxious presence. He is not allowed to worship with them. 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. The flood of his grief has passed the high-water mark, and began to be assuaged. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. They put his own clothes upon him, because they were the perquisites of the executioner, as modern hangmen take the garments of those whom they execute, so did the four soldiers claim a right to his raiment. It was a confirmation of the Scripture testimony with regard to man's natural enmity to God. Let the sympathy of Christ, then, be fully believed in and deeply appreciated, since he said, "I thirst." John 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. The soldiery mocked and insulted him in every way that cruelty and scorn could devise. (7) Luke 23:46 And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, "Father, INTO THY HANDS I COMMIT MY SPIRIT. 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." II. The last of his last words is also taken from the Scriptures, and shows where his mind was feeding. 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 is done. Is not this a fertile field of thought? The sinful find our conversation distasteful; in our pursuits the carnal have no interest; things dear to us are dross to worldlings, while things precious to them are contemptible to us. "'Twere you my sins, my cruel sins, His chief tormentors were; Each of my grimes became a nail, And unbelief the spear. "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." It is not likely that we shall be able to worship with their worship. 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. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. 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. 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. Jesus thirsted, then let us thirst in this dry and thirsty land where no water is. I am ashamed of some professed Christians, heartily ashamed of them! 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. It does not often happen that five or six thousand people meet together twice; it never does, I suppose; the scythe of death must cut some of you down before my voice shall warn you again! No, no; we must not make a cross of our own. His most fruitful years of ministry were at the New Park Street and later the Metropolitan Tabernacle pulpit in London. I think, beloved friends, that the cry of "I thirst" was THE MYSTICAL EXPRESSION OF THE DESIRE OF HIS HEART "I thirst." Amid all the anguish of his spirit his last words prove him to have remained fully self-possessed, true to his forgiving nature, true to his kingly office, true to his filial relationship, true to his God, true to his love of the written word, true to his glorious work, and true to his faith in his Father. This was intended at once to proclaim his guilt and intimate his doom. 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. 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. Brother, thirst to have your children save. Bearing upon his back the sin of all his people, the offering goes without the camp. The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. Now, I am not sure that we ought to blame ourselves for this. 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. Yes, he loves to be with his people; they are the garden where he walks for refreshment, and their love, their graces, are the milk and wine which he delights to drink. The spear broke up the very fountains of life; no human body could survive such a wound. See, brethren, where sin begins, and mark that there it ends. 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. are they not more like sharp vinegar? 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. 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. 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. How has it been with you? Romanists pretend to know; in fact they know the very spot where Veronica wiped the blessed face with her handkerchief, and found his likeness impressed upon it; we also know very well where that was not done; in fact they know the very spot where Jesus fainted, and if you go to Jerusalem you can see all these different places if you only carry enough credulity with you; but the fact is the city has been so razed, and burned, and ploughed, that there is little chance of distinguishing any of these positions, with the exception, it may be, of Mount Calvary, which being outside the walls may possibly still remain. London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. Add to Cart. 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. Some of you will not be baptized because you think people will say, "He is a professor; how holy he ought to be." Oh! A strong emphasis in Spurgeon's preaching was God's grace and sovereignty over man's helpless state. Take up your cross daily and follow him. why hast thou forsaken me?" 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. 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. Your noble Prince is preparing for his marriage: mine is hastening to his doom. After our Lord Jesus Christ had been formally condemned by Pilate, our text tells us he was led away. It is that he may eat and drink with you, for he promises that if we open to him he will enter in and sup with us and we with him. Now recollect, if Jesus had not thirsted, every one of us would have thirsted for ever afar off from God, with an impassable gulf between us and heaven. She craved full flagons of love though she was already overpowered by it. 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. "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.". Let each of us say "Tis all my business here below To cry, Behold the Lamb!" John 1:30-31. What was he looking for from his vineyard and its winepress? 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. 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. If not, bestir yourselves at once. So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. What knocks he for? 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. Hate sin, and heartily loathe it; but thirst to be holy as God is holy, thirst to be like Christ, thirst to bring glory to his sacred name by complete conformity to his will. If he was so poor that his garments were stripped from him, and he was hung up upon the tree, penniless and friendless, hungering and thirsting, will you henceforth groan and murmur because you bear the yoke of poverty and want? In that cry there is reconciliation to God. Hast thou laid thy hand upon his head, confessed thy sin, and trusted in him? O to be enlarged in soul so as to take deeper draughts of his sweet love, for our heart cannot have enough. To-day I invite your attention to another Prince, marching in another fashion through his metropolis. "His way was much rougher and darker than mine; Did Christ, my Lord, suffer, and shall I repine?". Commentators like Thomas Manton and John Calvin are represented in this series. 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