john 19 commentary spurgeon

We are to reckon upon all this, and should the worst befal us, it is to be no strange thing to us. The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. I invite you to meditate upon the true humanity of our Lord very reverently, and very lovingly. Our Lord Jesus came forth, willing to be exposed to their scorn. what a black thought crosses our mind! No man dare call him friend now, or whisper a word of comfort to him. Complain not, then. away with him." 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? He is not allowed to worship with them. We may therefore come before him, with all the rest of our race, when God subdues them to repentance by his love, and look on him whom we have pierced, and mourn for him as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. 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." So were the streets of Jerusalem; for great multitudes followed him. John 19:1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. Metaphorically understood, thirst is dissatisfaction, the craving of the mind for something which it has not, but which it pines for. Today! Have you repented of sin? 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. 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'? 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. why hast thou forsaken me?" 1. We all know that a different dress will often raise a doubt about the identity of an individual; but lo! For a biblical, reformed, and historic collection of commentaries, the Geneva Series is unsurpassed. Inductive Bible study on John 19. 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. How near akin the thirsty Saviour is to us; let us love him more and more. How truly man he is; he is, indeed, "bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh," for he bears our infirmities. John 19:16 . The words, "I thirst," are a common voice in death chambers. I believe there was a tenderness in Christ's heart to the Jew of a special character. 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. Know ye not, beloved, for I speak to those who know the Lord, that ye are crucified together with Christ? 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. Oh, shame that men should find so much applause for Princes and none for the King of kings. It is not likely that we shall be able to worship with their worship. For him they have no tolerance. The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God. I have already told you that such was our Lord's mystical desire; let it be ours also. Here is the forgiveness of sin free forgiveness in answer to the Saviour's plea. 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. He is thirsty still, you see, for our poor love, and surely we cannot deny it to him. Amen. Others think that Simon carried the whole of the cross. Here you see how the mortal flesh had to share in the agony of the inward spirit. 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. Nor is this all. As Spurgeon puts it "Faith is described as 'receiving' Jesus. Let us now gaze for awhile upon CHRIST CARRYING HIS CROSS. Then I will thirst with him and not complain, I will suffer with him and not murmur." "'Twere you my sins, my cruel sins, His chief tormentors were; Each of my grimes became a nail, And unbelief the spear. One would have said, If he were thirsty he would not tell us, for all the clouds and rains would be glad to refresh his brow, and the brooks and streams would joyously flow at his feet. 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." As you look at the cross upon his shoulders does it represent your sin? Borrowed from his lips it well suiteth my mouth. 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. You are not, therefore, so poor as he. We can never forget the painful scenes of which we have been witness, when we have watched the dissolving of the human frame. 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." 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. There have been times, and the days may come again, when faithfulness to Christ has entailed exclusion from what is called "society." Think of that! So he was thirsting then. John preached a sacrificial Saviour, a sin-bearing Saviour, a sin-atoning Saviour. Let patience have her perfect work. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure 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. 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. Godly working-men, should your employers or your fellow-workers frown upon you; wives, should your husbands threaten to cast you out, remember, without the camp was Jesus' place, and without the camp is yours. Think of the millions in this dark world! Next Saturday all eyes will be fixed on a great Prince who shall ride through our streets with his Royal Bride. Christ was spit upon with shame; sinner, what shame will be yours! 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!" A strong emphasis in Spurgeon's preaching was God's grace and sovereignty over man's helpless state. Nay more; he is banished from their society, as if he were a leper whose breath would be infectious whose presence would scatter plague. For his sake we may rejoice in self-denials, and accept Christ and a crust as all we desire between here and heaven. There is the complete justification of the believer, since the work by which he is accepted is fully accomplished. But my Prince is hated without a cause. Glorious stoop of our exalted Head! 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. 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. I am ashamed of some professed Christians, heartily ashamed of them! 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. Although Simon carried Christ's cross, he did not volunteer to do it, but they compelled him. May we not be half ashamed of our pleasures when he says, "I thirst"? O Lord Jesus, we love thee and we worship thee! Rutherford used words somewhat to this effect, "I thirst for my Lord and this is joy; a joy which no man taketh from me. Every word, therefore, you see teaches us some grand fundamental doctrine of our blessed faith. Believing this, let us tenderly feel how very near akin to us our Lord Jesus has become. Yet most people today have never heard of John Gill. "Wist ye not," said he, while yet a boy, "that I must be about my Father's business?" 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. The Christian faith and motives for Christian worship are based on the certainty of facts. Let us muse upon the fact that Jesus was conducted without the gates of the city. 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? O to be enlarged in soul so as to take deeper draughts of his sweet love, for our heart cannot have enough. That is very possible; Christ may have carried the heavier end, against the transverse beam, and Simon may have borne the lighter end. I think that Roman soldier meant well, at least well for a rough warrior with his little light and knowledge. 1089 - The Man Greatly Beloved . He did not spare his Son the stripes. Hast thou laid thy hand upon his head, confessed thy sin, and trusted in him? Have you prayed for your fellow men? "Women, behold thy son!" You have seen Jesus led away by his enemies; so shall you be dragged away by fiends to the place appointed for you. 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. "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. You have, then, no true sympathy for Christ if you have not an earnest sympathy with those who would win souls for Christ. " And having said this, He breathed His last. What doth he say? 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. Commentary on John 19:31-37 (Read John 19:31-37) A trial was made whether Jesus was dead. Of the many benefits we have in learning from Paul, a few stand out:1. "The sea is his, and he made it," and all fountains and springs are of his digging. Will your Prince be sumptuously arrayed? A new edition of Spurgeon's classic devotional using the ESV. 1 So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. The Church must suffer, that the gospel may be spread by her means. 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? I am glad the world expects much from us, and watches us narrowly. 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." 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. 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. Our Lord felt that grievous drought of dissolution by which all moisture seems dried up, and the flesh returns to the dust of death: this those know who have commenced to tread the valley of the shadow of death. Dear fountain of delight unknown! 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. The high places of earth's worship and honor are not for us. 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? The next time we are in pain or are suffering depression of spirit we will remember that our Lord understands it all, for he has had practical, personal experience of it. He also knew well the terrible joy that comes only through suffering as he lived quite afflicted (both by illness and slander). I cannot think that natural thirst was all he felt. My Lord is not altogether without his espoused one. 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." 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. The great agony of being forsaken by God was over, and he felt faint when the strain was withdrawn. 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. And said, Hail, King of the Jews! C.H. are they not more like sharp vinegar? The power to suffer for another, the capacity to be self-denying even to an extreme to accomplish some great work for God this is a thing to be sought after, and must be gained before our work is done, and in this Jesus is before us our example and our strength. ( John 19:1-4) Pilate hopes to satisfy the mob by having Jesus whipped and mocked. I know he loves to receive from you, because he delights even in a cup of cold water that you give to one of his disciples; how much more will he delight in the giving of your whole self to him? Angels cannot suffer thirst. We ought all to have a longing for conversions. "His way was much rougher and darker than mine; Did Christ, my Lord, suffer, and shall I repine?". It is not sorrow over Rome, but Jerusalem. I have shown you, believer, your position; let me now show you your service. The mind of man is like the daughters of the horseleech, which cry for ever, "Give, give." The last word but one, "It is finished." And what makes him love us so? Hail, everlasting King in heaven, thou dost admit to thy paradise whomsoever thou wilt! 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! And yet he placed himself for our sakes into a position of shame and suffering where none would wait upon him, but when he cried, "I thirst," they gave him vinegar to drink. Jesus, being a man, escaped none of the ills which are allotted to man in death. Well might the Master say, "Weep not for me, but for yourselves." But what shall be your cry when you shall say, "Good God! Even as the hart panteth after the water brooks, our souls would thirst after thee, O God. Think, dear friends, there are some in this congregation who as yet have no interest in Jesu's blood, some sitting next to you, your nearest friends who, if they were now to close their eyes in death, would open them in hell! Jesus paused, and said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me; but weep for yourselves and for your children." The Geneva Series of Commentaries include historic commentaries on biblical books written by some of the great theologians in the history of the church. Did not the high-priest bring the scape-goat, and put both his hands upon its head, confessing the sins of the people, that thus those sins might be laid upon the goat? As Christ went through the streets, a great multitude looked on. He had no sooner said "I thirst," and sipped the vinegar, than he shouted, "It is finished"; and all was over: the battle was fought and the victory won for ever, and our great Deliverer's thirst was the sign of his having smitten the last foe. Spurgeon left this earth for his heavenly hope in 1892. Charles Haddon Spurgeon December 1, 1861 Scripture: John 19:30 From: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 7 It is Finished! So then Pilate took Jesus and scourged Him. 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. 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." Calvary was like our Old Bailey; it was the usual place of execution for the district. Alas, my brethren, I cannot say much on the score of man's cruelty to our Lord without touching myself and you. V. Lastly, the cry of "I thirst" is to us THE PATTERN OF OUR DEATH WITH HIM. 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. 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. "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." 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