The Lord bless you, for Jesus' own sake. It is not sorrow over Rome, but Jerusalem. 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. It is done. The extreme tension produced a burning feverishness. Simon was an African; he came from Cyrene. "Verily I say unto thee, to-day shalt thou be with me in paradise" this is the Lord Jesus in kingly power, opening with the key of David a door which none can shut, admitting into the gates of heaven the poor soul who had confessed him on the tree. How harshly grate the cruel syllables, "Crucify him! What was he looking for from his vineyard and its winepress? 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. That is very possible; Christ may have carried the heavier end, against the transverse beam, and Simon may have borne the lighter end. 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. 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? Includes cross references, questions, verse by verse commentary, outline, and applications on John chapter 19 for small groups. Then came, "Women, behold thy son!" Our first parents plucked forbidden fruit, and by eating slew the race. Do we not see here the truth of that which was set forth in shadow by the scape-goat? Spurgeon left this earth for his heavenly hope in 1892. 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." Oh, shame that men should find so much applause for Princes and none for the King of kings. "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" I have now a third picture to present to you CHRIST AND HIS MOURNERS. (1-3) Jesus enters the garden, followed by Judas and his troops. Perhaps they are your children, the objects of your fondest love, with no interest in Christ, without God and without hope in the world! 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. If not, bestir yourselves at once. 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. For his sake we may rejoice in self-denials, and accept Christ and a crust as all we desire between here and heaven. Next time your fevered lips murmur "I am very thirsty," you may say to yourself, "Those are sacred words, for my Lord spake in that fashion." Home; Origin; Birth; John; Acts; About; JOHN 19 COMMENTARY . Behold, my King is not without his crown alas, a crown of thorns set with ruby drops of blood! "And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes," vinegar, and not wine; sourness, and not sweetness. 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. 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. Think of the millions in this dark world! ( John 19:1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. I believe there was a tenderness in Christ's heart to the Jew of a special character. 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. Well, beloved, the cross we have to carry is only for a little while at most. As Spurgeon puts it "Faith is described as 'receiving' Jesus. No, no; we must not make a cross of our own. Did not the prophecies say that man would give to his incarnate God gall to eat and vinegar to drink? There is the complete justification of the believer, since the work by which he is accepted is fully accomplished. What a cataract of immortal souls dashes downwards to the pit every hour! (7) Luke 23:46 And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, "Father, INTO THY HANDS I COMMIT MY SPIRIT. 1. "'Twere you my sins, my cruel sins, His chief tormentors were; Each of my grimes became a nail, And unbelief the spear. Will your Prince be sumptuously arrayed? I differ from them greatly, but I will say this, that next to the actual enjoyment of my Lord's presence I love to hunger and to thirst after him. Shall the servant be above his Master, or the disciple above his Lord? John, the gospel of faith by Harrison, Everett Falconer, 1902- from Everyman's Bible Commentary series. John 19:3. Say not that the comparison is strained, for in a moment I will withdraw it and present the contrast. Scripture provides a wealth . He can receive vinegar, but not lukewarm love. Let me show what I think he meant. He goes forth, then, bearing his cross. See, it has been blackened with bruises, and stained with the shameful spittle of them that derided him. 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. He who stood in our stead has finished all his work, and now his spirit comes back to the Father, and he brings us with him. 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. 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. 1. 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. 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. 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. Christ was always thirsty to save men, and to be loved of men; and we see a type of his life-long desire when, being weary, he sat thus on the well and said to the woman of Samaria, "Give me to drink." (6) John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the sour wine, He said, " It is finished! 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. 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. Our glorious Samson had been fighting our foes; heaps upon heaps he had slain his thousands, and now like Samson he was sore athirst. 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. He thirsts to bless you and to receive your grateful love in return; he thirsts to see you looking with believing eye to his fulness, and holding out your emptiness that he may supply it. Christ was spit upon with shame; sinner, what shame will be yours! 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." Hark how their loud voices demand that he should be hastened to execution! 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. 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 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. Our Lord is the Maker of the ocean and the waters that are above the firmament: it is his hand that stays or opens the bottles of heaven, and sendeth rain upon the evil and upon the good. The woes which broke the Savior's heart must crush theirs. Are you lukewarm? It was a confirmation of the Scripture testimony with regard to man's natural enmity to God. 29. There is one way by which you can tell whether he carried your sin or not. Who among us would not willingly pour out his soul unto death if he might but give refreshment to the Lord? But such is not the truthful estimate of man according to the Scriptures: there man is a fallen creature, with a carnal mind which cannot be reconciled to God; a worse than brutish creature, rendering evil for good, and treating his God with vile ingratitude. V. Lastly, the cry of "I thirst" is to us THE PATTERN OF OUR DEATH WITH HIM. 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. 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'? 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. 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. That man is a fool and deserves no pity, who purposely excites the disgust of other people. There are more unlikely things than that you will be dead before next Sunday. I cannot think that natural thirst was all he felt. good God! Come, bring him your warm heart, and let him drink from that purified chalice as much as he wills. He is not allowed to worship with them. The world has in former days counted it God's service to kill the saints. He believed, as a Roman in gods many. 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. We do not know what may have been the color of alimony face, but it was most likely black. 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." All this is a blessed clog upon us, and a means of keeping us more near the Lord. How great the love which led him to such a condescension as this! 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. 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. We can never forget the painful scenes of which we have been witness, when we have watched the dissolving of the human frame. This thirst had been on him from the earliest of his earthly days. 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