I do not know how far it was from Pilate's house to the Mount of Doom. Holy Scripture remains the basis of our faith, established by every word and act of our Redeemer. Jesus was proved to be really man, because he suffered the pains which belong to manhood. How truly man he is; he is, indeed, "bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh," for he bears our infirmities. Let the sympathy of Christ, then, be fully believed in and deeply appreciated, since he said, "I thirst." I have already told you that such was our Lord's mystical desire; let it be ours also. It is the empty cup placed under the flowing stream; the penniless hand held out for heavenly alms." . " And He bowed His head, and gave up His spirit. Includes cross references, questions, verse by verse commentary, outline, and applications on John chapter 19 for small groups. It is not fit that he should live." 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." July 2nd, 1882 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892) "I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them." John 17:26 . 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. Next Saturday all eyes will be fixed on a great Prince who shall ride through our streets with his Royal Bride. O to be enlarged in soul so as to take deeper draughts of his sweet love, for our heart cannot have enough. 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." Let me add, that when we look at the sufferings of Christ, we ought to sorrow deeply for the souls of all unregenerate men and women. Oh! 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! 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. 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. "Women, behold thy son!" 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. Acts 19 Acts 19 He preached in the same church as C. H. Spurgeon over one hundred years earlier. "'Twere you my sins, my cruel sins, His chief tormentors were; Each of my grimes became a nail, And unbelief the spear. 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." I will give you one of his thirsty prayers "Father, I will that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory." Appetite was the door of sin, and therefore in that point our Lord was put to pain. Jesus was deserted of God; and if he, who was only imputedly a sinner, was deserted, how much more shall you be? And said, Hail, King of the Jews! You carry the cross after him. If you will look, there is the mark of his blood-red shoulder upon that heavy cross. 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. He can receive vinegar, but not lukewarm love. 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." I am ashamed of some professed Christians, heartily ashamed of them! Lectures to My Students - Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1889 Lessons from the Apostle Paul's Prayers - Charles Spurgeon 2018-02-19 Why study and pray the prayers of the Apostle Paul? you that are ashamed of Christ, how can you read that text, "He that is ashamed of me, and of my words, of him will I be ashamed when I come in the glory of my Father, and all my holy angels with me." It is that he may eat and drink with you, for he promises that if we open to him he will enter in and sup with us and we with him. Here you see how the mortal flesh had to share in the agony of the inward spirit. All nations gathered about my Lord, both great and mean men clustered around his person. 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. 1089 - The Man Greatly Beloved . "I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk; eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved." Oh! 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. If we be true to our Master we shall soon lose the friendship of the world. Commentators like Thomas Manton and John Calvin are represented in this series. I invite you to meditate upon the true humanity of our Lord very reverently, and very lovingly. You young believers, who have lately followed Christ, should father and mother forsake you, remember you were bidden to reckon upon it; should brothers and sisters deride, you must put this down as part of the cost of being a Christian. It is the way whereby many shall be brought to Christ, when this blessed soul-thirst of true Christian charity shall be upon those who are themselves saved. After preaching his first sermon at the age of 16, he became pastor of the church in Waterbeach at the age of 17. And well they may; the son of such noble parents deserves a nation's love. 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. These are awful words, but they are not mine; they are the very words of God in Scripture. 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. Beloved, let us comfort ourselves with this thought, that in our case, as in Simon's, it is not our cross, but Christ's cross which we carry. Romanists of all ages have wrought upon the feelings of the people in this manner, and to a degree the attempt is commendable, but if it shall all end in tears of pity, no good is done. 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." He knows that he tells the truth, and he testifies so that you also may believe. Today! Certain philosophers have said that they love the pursuit of truth even better than the knowledge of truth. "I thirst," ay, this is my soul's word with her Lord. Shall the servant be above his Master, or the disciple above his Lord? See how man at his best mingles admiration of the Saviour's person with scorn of his claims; writing books to hold him up as an example and at the same moment rejecting his deity; admitting that he was a wonderful man, but denying his most sacred mission; extolling his ethical teaching and then trampling on his blood: thus giving him drink, but that drink vinegar. John 19:16 . 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. After our Lord Jesus Christ had been formally condemned by Pilate, our text tells us he was led away. The most careless eye discerns it. John 19:28 . You do suffer. Mark then, Christian, Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. For the thousands of eyes which shall gaze upon the youthful Prince, I offer the gaze of men and angels. "After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst." There were, as you know, seven of those last words, and seven is the number of perfection and fulness; the number which blends the three of the infinite God with the four of complete creation. But ye ask me where is the spouse, the king's daughter fair and beautiful? 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. No longer sink below the brim; But overflow, and pour me down A living and life-giving stream.". Amen. 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. He loved the Gentile, but still Jerusalem was the city of the Great King. Thirst is no royal grief, but an evil of universal manhood; Jesus is brother to the poorest and most humble of our race. _Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. He is indeed "Immanuel, God with us" everywhere. crucify him!" He would have sacrificed himself to save his countrymen, so heartily did he desire their eternal welfare. We see in Simon's carrying the cross a picture of what the Church is to do throughout all generations. Calvary was like our Old Bailey; it was the usual place of execution for the district. ye unregenerate men and women, and there are not a few such here now, remember that when God saw Christ in the sinner's place he did not spare him, and when he finds you without Christ, he will not spare you. Now Christ standing in the stead of the ungodly suffers thirst as a type of his enduring the result of sin. My heart shall not be content till he is all in all to me, and I am altogether lost in him. If not, bestir yourselves at once. "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" "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. For several Sabbath mornings my mind has been directed into subjects which I might fitly call the deep things of God. Scripture provides a wealth . Conservative, but not too much depth. Hark how their loud voices demand that he should be hastened to execution! They are created in the minds of men. IV. 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. I. 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. "Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, and touch not the unclean thing." Have you prayed for your fellow men? It is not likely that we shall be able to worship with their worship. To-day I invite your attention to another Prince, marching in another fashion through his metropolis. Those pictures which represent our Lord as wearing the crown of thorns upon the tree have therefore at least some scriptural warrant. 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. According to modern thought man is a very fine and noble creature, struggling to become better. 2 And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns and put it on His head, . Bearing upon his back the sin of all his people, the offering goes without the camp. Was not the Redeemer led thither to aggravate his shame? 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. Shall carnal appetites be indulged and bodies pampered when Jesus cried :I thirst"? Christians, will you refuse to be cross-bearers for Christ? Exposition of the Gospel according to John by Hendriksen, William, 1900-1982 (1953) 526 pages 19 ratings Oh! 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. Remember that, and expect to suffer. In the fourth place, one or two words upon CHRIST'S FELLOW-SUFFERERS. Do not let the picture vanish till you have satisfied yourselves once for all that Christ was here the substitute for you. Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) was born in Essex, England. The Holy Spirit took special care that each of the sacred utterances should be fittingly recorded. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh." There are more unlikely things than that you will be dead before next Sunday. We do not thirst after the old manner wherein we were bitterly afflicted, for he hath said, "He that drinketh of this water shall never thirst:" but now we covet a new thirst. "To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise." I show unto you a more excellent way. We shall perhaps know it in our measure in our dying hour, but not yet, nor ever so terribly as he did. 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. May the Holy Ghost help us to hear a fourth tuning of the dolorous music, "I thirst." There can be no shadow of doubt but that our Lord was really crucified, and no one substituted for him. John 19:3. The excitement of a great struggle makes men forget thirst and faintness; it is only when all is over that they come back to themselves and note the spending of their strength. In the Lord of Hosts, who shows his power in the sufferings of Christ and of his Church. John 19 Commentary John chapter 19 commentary Bible study. Go ye, then, like the Master, expecting to be abused, to wear an ill-name, and to earn reproach; go ye, like him, without the camp. Alas poor African, thou hast been compelled to carry the cross even until now. London shall see the glory of the one: Jerusalem beheld the shame of the other. My well beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: and he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein." He calls for that: will you not give it to him? 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. 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. So were the streets of Jerusalem; for great multitudes followed him. He died in less time than persons crucified commonly did. away with him." 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. Let this mind be in you also. Do not forget, also, that you bear this cross in partnership. May God deliver you! Think of that! "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." You may think that this remark is not needed; but I have met with one or two cases where it was required; and I have often said I would preach a sermon for even one person, and, therefore, I make this remark, even though it should rebuke but one. 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