How they led him forth we do not know. He must love, it is his nature. 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. And said, Hail, King of the Jews!_ Holy Scripture remains the basis of our faith, established by every word and act of our Redeemer. So were the streets of Jerusalem; for great multitudes followed him. John 19:1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. 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. is the fourth cry, and it illustrates the penalty endured by our Substitute when he bore our sins, and so was forsaken of his God. are they not more like sharp vinegar? It is almost done, thou Christ of God; thou hast almost saved thy people; there remaineth but one thing more, that thou shouldst actually die, and hence thy strong desire to come to the end and complete thy labour. Next Saturday all eyes will be fixed on a great Prince who shall ride through our streets with his Royal Bride. You may die so, you may die now. Jesus, being a man, escaped none of the ills which are allotted to man in death. 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. 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. 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 . They place the cross upon Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country. Can you help feeling how very near Jesus is to us when his lips must be moistened with a sponge, and he must be so dependent upon others as to ask drink from their hand? Conservative, but not too much depth. Beeke, Joel R. & Thompson, Nick. Hark how their loud voices demand that he should be hastened to execution! II. The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God. 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. Beloved, if our Master said, "I thirst," do we expect every day to drink of streams from Lebanon? Universal manhood, left to itself, rejects, crucifies, and mocks the Christ of God. 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. why hast thou forsaken me?" Come hither, ye lovers of Immanuel, and I will show you this great sight the King of sorrow marching to his throne of grief, the cross. 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? But what shall be your cry when you shall say, "Good God! _Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. No sufferings of ours have anything to do with the atonement of sin. "After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst." "I thirst" meant that his heart was thirsting to save men. 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. 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. Have you repented of sin? "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" 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. You and I have nothing else to preach. You see there the multitude are leading him forth from the temple. As he commends his spirit into the Father's hand, so does he bring all believers nigh to God, and henceforth we are in the hand of the Father, who is greater than all, and none shall pluck us thence. We used to melt when we heard about his sufferings, but we did not turn from our sins. Fix your hearts upon some unsaved one, and thirst until he is saved. All nations gathered about my Lord, both great and mean men clustered around his person. It began with the mouth of appetite, when it was sinfully gratified, and it ends when a kindred appetite is graciously denied. Commentary on John 19:31-37 (Read John 19:31-37) A trial was made whether Jesus was dead. John 18:19-40 - Glory on Trial A. Nor is this all. You are not, therefore, so poor as he. 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. We see in Simon's carrying the cross a picture of what the Church is to do throughout all generations. what a black thought crosses our mind! If we be true to our Master we shall soon lose the friendship of the world. 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. I tell you, sirs, that yonder malefactor carried his cross and died on it; and you will carry your sorrows, and be damned with them, except you repent. Are you so frozen at heart that not a cup of cold water can be melted for Jesus? In the fourth place, one or two words upon CHRIST'S FELLOW-SUFFERERS. Dear fountain of delight unknown! To-day I invite your attention to another Prince, marching in another fashion through his metropolis. I am ashamed of some professed Christians, heartily ashamed of them! Henceforth, also, let us cultivate the spirit of resignation, for we may well rejoice to carry a cross which his shoulders have borne before us. There are no passages in all the public ministry of Jesus so tender as those which have regard to Jerusalem. Such a greeting had the Lord of glory, but alas, it was not the shout of welcome, but the yell of "Away with him! This was intended at once to proclaim his guilt and intimate his doom. Spurgeon's Bible Commentary John 19 John 19:1-16 John 19:1. His most fruitful years of ministry were at the New Park Street and later the Metropolitan Tabernacle pulpit in London. You do suffer. Thirst is no royal grief, but an evil of universal manhood; Jesus is brother to the poorest and most humble of our race. Then they said, "Hail, King of the Jews!" And they struck Him with their hands. 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." A few times the sun will go up and down the hill; a few more moons will wax and wane, and then we shall receive the glory. More solemn still is the reflection that according to our Lord's own teaching, thirst will also be the eternal result of sin, for he says concerning the rich glutton, "In hell he lift up his eyes, being in torment," and his prayer, which was denied him, was, "Father Abraham, send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame." For his sake we may rejoice in self-denials, and accept Christ and a crust as all we desire between here and heaven. 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. Here, as everywhere else, we are constrained to say of our Lord, "Never man spake like this man." Behold, my King is not without his crown alas, a crown of thorns set with ruby drops of blood! 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. 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. 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." Oh! 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. 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. Let patience have her perfect work. The sharpness of that sentence no exposition can fully disclose to us: it is keen as the very edge and point of the sword which pierced his heart. 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. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it. The mind of man is like the daughters of the horseleech, which cry for ever, "Give, give." 'Tis his cross, and he goes before you as a shepherd goes before his sheep. 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! My heart shall not be content till he is all in all to me, and I am altogether lost in him. "The sea is his, and he made it," and all fountains and springs are of his digging. May we not despise our loaded table while he is neglected? 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. 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. (7) Luke 23:46 And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, "Father, INTO THY HANDS I COMMIT MY SPIRIT. And said, Hail, King of the Jews! It was a thirst such as none of us have ever known, for not yet has the death dew condensed upon our brows. Complain not, then. Cover it with a cloak? 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