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." Call to mind his complaint in the fifth chapter of Isaiah, "Now will I sing to my well beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. V. Lastly, the cry of "I thirst" is to us THE PATTERN OF OUR DEATH WITH HIM. The Geneva Series of Commentaries include historic commentaries on biblical books written by some of the great theologians in the history of the church. "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. 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? Alas poor African, thou hast been compelled to carry the cross even until now. Christ did but transfer to Simon the outward frame, the mere tree; but the curse of the tree, which was our sin and its punishment, rested on Jesus' shoulders still. Let this mind be in you also. 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. 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. 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. "Women, behold thy son!" I believe there was a tenderness in Christ's heart to the Jew of a special character. Will your Prince be decorated with honors? 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. " And having said this, He breathed His last. Remember, dear friends, that what Christ suffered for us, these unregenerate ones must suffer for themselves, except they put their trust in Christ. April 14th, 1878 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892). Hail, ye despised children of the sun, ye follow first after the King in the march of woe. God forbid! 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. It is the empty cup placed under the flowing stream; the penniless hand held out for heavenly alms." . Even as the hart panteth after the water brooks, our souls would thirst after thee, O God. What but for the juice of the vine that he might be refreshed? Glorious stoop of our exalted Head! Let each of us say "Tis all my business here below To cry, Behold the Lamb!" John 1:30-31. I am not the One anointed of God to save mankind. John 1:21. 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. Did he not tell his disciples, "I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished?" There was nothing behind in the price, but there is something behind in the manifested power, and we must continue to fill up that measure of revealed power, carrying each one of us the cross with Christ, till the last shame shall have been poured upon his cause, and he shall reign for ever and ever. 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. To-day I invite your attention to another Prince, marching in another fashion through his metropolis. 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. And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe. Conceal your religion? 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. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. Includes cross references, questions, verse by verse commentary, outline, and applications on John chapter 19 for small groups. They are created in the minds of men. Oh, shame that men should find so much applause for Princes and none for the King of kings. You and I have nothing else to preach. And they asked him, What then? 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. We do not know what may have been the color of alimony face, but it was most likely black. Do we not see here the truth of that which was set forth in shadow by the scape-goat? The last of his last words is also taken from the Scriptures, and shows where his mind was feeding. Among other things methinks he meant this "If I, the innocent substitute for sinners, suffer thus, what will be done when the sinner himself the dry tree whose sins are his own, and not merely imputed to him, shall fall into the hands of an angry God." Justice must fly the field lest it be severe to so deserving a being; as for punishment, it must not be whispered to his ears polite. We read, "The soldiers also mocked him, offering him vinegar." O my hearers, beware of praising Jesus and denying his atoning sacrifice. Who among us would not willingly pour out his soul unto death if he might but give refreshment to the Lord? Cheerfully accept this burden, ye servants of the Lord. According to modern thought man is a very fine and noble creature, struggling to become better. We are not sure that Simon was a disciple of Christ; he may have been a friendly spectator; yet one would think the Jews would naturally select a disciple if they could. Of the many benefits we have in learning from Paul, a few stand out:1. Your path runs hard by that of your Master. 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. How great the love which led him to such a condescension as this! "And they took Jesus, and led him away." He pitied the sufferer, but he thought so little of him that he joined in the voice of scorn. Great and worshipful being that he is, truth is to be altered for him, the gospel is to be modulated to suit the tone of his various generations, and all the arrangements of the universe are to be rendered subservient to his interests. I do not know how far it was from Pilate's house to the Mount of Doom. We see in Simon's carrying the cross a picture of what the Church is to do throughout all generations. It seems to me very wonderful that this "I thirst" should be, as it were, the clearance of it all. This is what the Apostle meant when he said, "I fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the Church." London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. Revelation: The Lectio Continua Expository Commentary on the New Testament (Beeke) $30.00 $40.00. C.H. Nor is this all. O to be enlarged in soul so as to take deeper draughts of his sweet love, for our heart cannot have enough. He thirsted to pluck us from between the jaws of hell, to pay our redemption price, and set us free from the eternal condemnation which hung over us; and when on the cross the work was almost done his thirst was not assuaged, and could not be till he could say, "It is finished." "After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst." They place the cross upon Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country. Inductive Bible study on John 19. He did not spare his Son the stripes. See, brethren, where sin begins, and mark that there it ends. Although Simon carried Christ's cross, he did not volunteer to do it, but they compelled him. 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. 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. Did we not do so years ago before we knew him? Those pictures which represent our Lord as wearing the crown of thorns upon the tree have therefore at least some scriptural warrant. 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. Simon had to carry the cross but for a very little time, yet his name is in this Book for ever, and we may envy him his honor. There were two other cross-bearers in the throng; they were malefactors; their crosses were just as heavy as the Lord's, and yet, at least, one of them had no sympathy with him, and his bearing the cross only led to his death, and not to his salvation. We would fain lift thy name on high in grateful remembrance of the depths to which thou didst descend! "When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost." John 19:30. 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. 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. Charles Haddon Spurgeon December 1, 1861 Scripture: John 19:30 From: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 7 It is Finished! Shall it ever be a hardship to be denied the satisfying draught when he said, "I thirst." 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 last word but one, "It is finished." 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." Beloved, if our Master said, "I thirst," do we expect every day to drink of streams from Lebanon? Oh! Come let us pour out full flagons, until his joy is fulfilled in us. "To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise." 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. So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. John 19:16 . They put on him his own clothes that the multitudes might discern him to be the same man, the very man who had professed to be the Messias. Your noble Prince is preparing for his marriage: mine is hastening to his doom. Every word, therefore, you see teaches us some grand fundamental doctrine of our blessed faith. IV. 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. What knocks he for? They take matters very gently; they think it unnecessary to be soldiers of the cross. Behold, my King is not without his crown alas, a crown of thorns set with ruby drops of blood! You have, then, no true sympathy for Christ if you have not an earnest sympathy with those who would win souls for Christ. The great Surety says, "I thirst," because he is placed in the sinner's stead, and he must therefore undergo the penalty of sin for the ungodly. When you are molested for your piety; when your religion brings the trial of cruel mockings upon you; then remember, it is not your cross, it is Christ's cross; and how delightful is it to carry the cross of our Lord Jesus? (1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. 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. What whips of steel for you, what knots of burning wire for you, when conscience shall smite you, when the law shall scourge you with its ten-thonged whip! "And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes," vinegar, and not wine; sourness, and not sweetness. This added to his shame; but, methinks, in this, too, he draws the nearer to us, "He was numbered with the transgressors, and bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors." See, it has been blackened with bruises, and stained with the shameful spittle of them that derided him. 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. In the multitude there was a sparse sprinkling of tender-hearted women, probably those who had been healed, or whose children had been blessed by him. 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. Today! What a cataract of immortal souls dashes downwards to the pit every hour! 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. Even now to a large extent the true Christian is like a Pariah, lower than the lowest caste, in the judgment of some. "Wist ye not," said he, while yet a boy, "that I must be about my Father's business?" As for yourselves, thirst after perfection. 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. 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. 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." O Lord Jesus, we love thee and we worship thee! Take up your cross, and go without the camp, following your Lord, even until death. How harshly grate the cruel syllables, "Crucify him! Are you so frozen at heart that not a cup of cold water can be melted for Jesus? 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