We are to reckon upon all this, and should the worst befal us, it is to be no strange thing to us. Brother, thirst to have your children save. John 19 Commentary John chapter 19 commentary Bible study. The utterance of "I thirst" brought out A TYPE OF MAN'S TREATMENT OF HIS LORD. April 14th, 1878 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). Charles Haddon Spurgeon December 1, 1861 Scripture: John 19:30 From: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 7 It is Finished! Commentary on John 19:31-37 (Read John 19:31-37) A trial was made whether Jesus was dead. It showed that he had laid down his life of himself. He is thirsty still, you see, for our poor love, and surely we cannot deny it to him. And said, Hail, King of the Jews!_ 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." Let all your love be his. Believing this, let us tenderly feel how very near akin to us our Lord Jesus has become. 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. These are awful words, but they are not mine; they are the very words of God in Scripture. He would have sacrificed himself to save his countrymen, so heartily did he desire their eternal welfare. III. The last word but one, "It is finished." Oh! Includes cross references, questions, verse by verse commentary, outline, and applications on John chapter 19 for small groups. How near akin the thirsty Saviour is to us; let us love him more and more. Your path runs hard by that of your Master. What joy, what satisfaotion this will give if we can sing, "My soul looks back to see The burden thou didst bear, When hastening to the accursed tree, And knows her guilt was there!". We read, "The soldiers also mocked him, offering him vinegar." Even now to a large extent the true Christian is like a Pariah, lower than the lowest caste, in the judgment of some. Shall it ever be a hardship to be denied the satisfying draught when he said, "I thirst." Know ye not, beloved, for I speak to those who know the Lord, that ye are crucified together with Christ? 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. My heart shall not be content till he is all in all to me, and I am altogether lost in him. They force him without the walls, and are not satisfied till they have rid themselves of his obnoxious presence. What but for the juice of the vine that he might be refreshed? He must love his chosen whom he has once begun to love, for he is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. "I thirst, but not as once I did, The vain delights of earth to share; Thy wounds, Emmanuel, all forbid That I should seek my pleasures there. See, brethren, where sin begins, and mark that there it ends. But how vast was the disparity! John 19:3. In that cry there is reconciliation to God. (1-3) Jesus enters the garden, followed by Judas and his troops. Cover it with a cloak? It is a blow at the fable of purgatory which strikes it to the heart. You and I have nothing else to preach. Are you lukewarm? 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. Did we not do so years ago before we knew him? He wants you brother, he wants you, dear sister, he longs to have you wholly to himself. Let us muse upon the fact that Jesus was conducted without the gates of the city. For the thousands of eyes which shall gaze upon the youthful Prince, I offer the gaze of men and angels. May God deliver you! Acts 19 Acts 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. Exposition of the Gospel according to John by Hendriksen, William, 1900-1982 (1953) 526 pages 19 ratings Hail, everlasting King in heaven, thou dost admit to thy paradise whomsoever thou wilt! Neither in torture of body nor in sadness of heart are we deserted by our Lord; his line is parallel with ours. March 1st, 1863 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). Well, beloved, the cross we have to carry is only for a little while at most. Think of the millions in this dark world! (6) John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the sour wine, He said, " It is finished! 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." He cried, ere he bowed the head which he had held erect amid all his conflict, as one who never yielded, "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit." 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 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. why hast thou forsaken me?" Nor is this all. In fact, the tendency is to exalt man above God and give him the highest place. We see in Simon's carrying the cross a picture of what the Church is to do throughout all generations. Appetite was the door of sin, and therefore in that point our Lord was put to pain. I. 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. I wonder he has ever received them, as one marvels why he received this vinegar; and yet he has received them, and smiled upon us for presenting them. May we not be half ashamed of our pleasures when he says, "I thirst"? Oh! Thirst is a common-place misery, such as may happen to peasants or beggars; it is a real pain, and not a thing of a fancy or a nightmare of dreamland. 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. 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. Beloved, let us thirst for the souls of our 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. Our Lord says, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink," that thirst being the result of sin in every ungodly man at this moment. 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. 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. IV. are they not more like sharp vinegar? Oh! Let me show what I think he meant. 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." How truly man he is; he is, indeed, "bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh," for he bears our infirmities. The reed was no mere rush from the brook, it was of a stouter kind, of which easterns often make walkingstaves, the blows were cruel as well as insulting; and the crown was not of straw but thorn, hence it produced pain as well as pictured scorn. Angels cannot suffer thirst. As not a bone of him shall be broken, so not a word shall be lost. Who among us would not willingly pour out his soul unto death if he might but give refreshment to the Lord? "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" Alas, man is the slave and the dupe of Satan, and a black-hearted traitor to his God. A Christian living to indulge the base appetites of a brute beast, to eat and to drink almost to gluttony and drunkenness, is utterly unworthy of the name. He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. 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. O souls, burdened with sin, rest ye here, and resting live. "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." If not, bestir yourselves at once. John 19:28 . 'Tis his cross, and he goes before you as a shepherd goes before his sheep. Even as the hart panteth after the water brooks, our souls would thirst after thee, O God. 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. They are created in the minds of men. the people saw him in the street, not arrayed in the purple robe, but wearing his garment without seam, woven from the top throughout, the common smock-frock, in fact, of the countrymen of Palestine, and they said at once, "Yes, 'tis he, the man who healed the sick, and raised the dead; the mighty teacher who was wont to sit upon the mountain-top, or stand in the temple courts and preach with authority, and not as the Scribes." Some of you will! Perhaps they are your children, the objects of your fondest love, with no interest in Christ, without God and without hope in the world! All this is a blessed clog upon us, and a means of keeping us more near the Lord. Holy Scripture remains the basis of our faith, established by every word and act of our Redeemer. 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. What doth he say? Mine is adorned with garments crimsoned with his own blood. 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. Christians, will you refuse to be cross-bearers for Christ? Mark then, Christian, Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. 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!" John 1 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries; John 1:12 Multiple Older Commentaries on this verse; . 29. John, the gospel of faith by Harrison, Everett Falconer, 1902- from Everyman's Bible Commentary series. He is greatly to be commended and admired, for his sin is said to be seeking after God, and his superstition is a struggling after light. 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. 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. (John 19:11) Jesus answered, . 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. Let us now gaze for awhile upon CHRIST CARRYING HIS CROSS. "I reckon that these light afflictions, which are but for a moment, are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us." 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