See, brethren, where sin begins, and mark that there it ends. Shall it ever be a hardship to be denied the satisfying draught when he said, "I thirst." 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. 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." Fathers and confessors, preachers and divines have delighted to dwell upon every syllable of these matchless cries. what a black thought crosses our mind! 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. And said, Hail, King of the Jews! 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. 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. The sufferings of Christ should make us weep over those who have brought that blood upon their heads. May the Holy Ghost work in you the complete pattern of Christ crucified, and to him shall be praise for ever and ever. I show unto you a more excellent way. Will your Prince be decorated with honors? 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." Spurgeon left this earth for his heavenly hope in 1892. Oh! 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. Was not the Redeemer led thither to aggravate his shame? 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. Metaphorically understood, thirst is dissatisfaction, the craving of the mind for something which it has not, but which it pines for. Read Joo 15:7 bible commentary from Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible by Charles Haddon Spurgeon FREE on BiblePortal.com 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. 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. I do not know how far it was from Pilate's house to the Mount of Doom. We ought not to forget the Jews. It showed that he had laid down his life of himself. Simon was an African; he came from Cyrene. Calvary was like our Old Bailey; it was the usual place of execution for the district. Then thy sin lies not on thee; not one single ounce or drachma of it lies on thee; it has all been transferred by blessed imputation to Christ, and he bears it on his shoulder in the form of yonder heavy cross. 2 And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, . 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. crucify him!" My heart shall not be content till he is all in all to me, and I am altogether lost in him. We may well remember our faults this day. 19:1-18 Little did Pilate think with what holy regard these sufferings of Christ would, in after-ages, be thought upon and spoken of by the best and greatest of men. He must love, it is his nature. Your noble Prince is preparing for his marriage: mine is hastening to his doom. Hast thou laid thy hand upon his head, confessed thy sin, and trusted in him? Glorious stoop of our exalted Head! John 18:19-40 - Glory on Trial A. Add to Cart. Did not the prophecies say that man would give to his incarnate God gall to eat and vinegar to drink? 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. 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." May we not despise our loaded table while he is neglected? Let me show what I think he meant. 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." Jesus paused, and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me; but weep for yourselves and for your children." I invite you to meditate upon the true humanity of our Lord very reverently, and very lovingly. Here, as everywhere else, we are constrained to say of our Lord, "Never man spake like this man." And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe. Did I not describe last Sabbath the knotted scourges which fell upon the Saviours back? Although Simon carried Christ's cross, he did not volunteer to do it, but they compelled him. Alas, man is the slave and the dupe of Satan, and a black-hearted traitor to his God. The last expiring word in which he commended his spirit to his Father, is the note of acceptance for himself and for us all. Sit at his feet with Mary, lean on his breast with John; yea, come with the spouse in the song and say, "Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for his love is better than wine." Our text is the shortest of all the words of Calvary; it stands as two words in our language "I thirst," but in the Greek it is only one. 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! Take up your cross, and go without the camp, following your Lord, even until death. Ray Stedman No blood but that which He has spilt, no groans but those which came from His heart, no suffering but that which was endured by Him, can ever make a recompense for sin. Know ye not, beloved, for I speak to those who know the Lord, that ye are crucified together with Christ? Pilate, as we reminded you, scourged our Savior according to the common custom of Roman courts. Cover it with a cloak? It was a thirst such as none of us have ever known, for not yet has the death dew condensed upon our brows. II. 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." Includes cross references, questions, verse by verse commentary, outline, and applications on John chapter 19 for small groups. Are you lukewarm? Grant me only thus much of likeness: we have here a Prince with his bride, bearing his banner, and wearing his royal robes, traversing the streets of his own city, surrounded by a throng who shout aloud, and a multitude who gaze with interest profound. And yet, though he was Lord of all he had so fully taken upon himself the form of a servant and was so perfectly made in the likeness of sinful flesh, that he cried with fainting voice, "I thirst." 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. Here is the forgiveness of sin free forgiveness in answer to the Saviour's plea. Even if I may not come at him, yet shall I be full of consolation, for it is heaven to thirst after him, and surely he will never deny a poor soul liberty to admire him, and adore him, and thirst after him." Will your thoroughfares be thronged? 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. 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. He died in less time than persons crucified commonly did. Angels cannot suffer thirst. Here you see how the mortal flesh had to share in the agony of the inward spirit. 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. Sister, thirst for the salvation of your class, thirst for the redemption of your family, thirst for the conversion of your husband. 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. Neither in torture of body nor in sadness of heart are we deserted by our Lord; his line is parallel with ours. 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. John 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. Jesus took the wrath; Jesus carried the sin; and now all that you endure is but for his sake, that you may be conformed unto his image, and may aid in gathering his people into his family. Certain philosophers have said that they love the pursuit of truth even better than the knowledge of truth. Mark then, Christian, Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. It was one of Death's castles; here he stored his gloomiest trophies; he was the grim lord of that stronghold. Jesus was deserted of God; and if he, who was only imputedly a sinner, was deserted, how much more shall you be? Oh, wondrous substitution of the just for the unjust, of God for man, of the perfect Christ for us guilty, hell-deserving rebels. 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?". 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. "And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes," vinegar, and not wine; sourness, and not sweetness. They are created in the minds of men. " And having said this, He breathed His last. And now, brethren, our blessed Lord has at this time a thirst for communion with each one of you who are his people, not because you can do him good, but because he can do you good. Hark how their loud voices demand that he should be hastened to execution! (1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. Do not let the picture vanish till you have satisfied yourselves once for all that Christ was here the substitute for you. 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. 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. Our sinful tongues, blistered by the fever of passion, must have burned for ever had not his tongue been tormented with thirst in our stead. Next Saturday all eyes will be fixed on a great Prince who shall ride through our streets with his Royal Bride. "Deliver him to the tormentors," was the word of the king in the parable; it shall be fulfilled to you "Depart ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels." Even as the hart panteth after the water brooks, our souls would thirst after thee, O God. Oh I raise the question, and be not satisfied unless you can answer it most positively in the affirmative. 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. why hast thou forsaken me?" 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. "I thirst," ay, this is my soul's word with her Lord. January 1, 1970 A Plain Answer to an Important Enquiry "Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent." John vi. Every word, therefore, you see teaches us some grand fundamental doctrine of our blessed faith. That is very possible; Christ may have carried the heavier end, against the transverse beam, and Simon may have borne the lighter end. . 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? He is thirsty still, you see, for our poor love, and surely we cannot deny it to him. 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